Satanism is on the increase – but Satanists don’t actually believe in Satan, according to the leader of a prominent group.
Instead they regard themselves as “a non-theistic religious organisation”, said Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple,
The three-year-old group is based in Salem, Massachusetts, where the infamous witch trials took place in the 17th century. It has been campaigning to have a 9-foot, 1.5-ton statue of the goat-headed idol Baphomet placed on the Arkansas Capitol grounds, where a monument of the Ten Commandments is planned.
