A community-maintained tertiary reference on LaVeyan Satanism, directly examined. Its strength is a precise founding date and a direct quotation of LaVey's own stated relationship to the supernatural; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a new religious movements monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on LaVeyan Satanism, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Church of Satan's founding by Anton LaVey on Walpurgisnacht 1966 in San Francisco, LaVey's declaration that 1966 marked Year One of a new Satanic era, the 1969 publication of The Satanic Bible following the success of the film Rosemary's Baby, and the atheistic, materialist basis of the doctrine, which rejects the existence of the supernatural including Satan and God.
Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism
Source Typereference
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Associated With
This source names Satanism directly: "tertiary reference on LaVeyan Satanism, directly examined."
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Prayers, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 general references.
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