1 Aleister Crowley – an influential occultist and ceremonial magician.
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
3 Anton LaVey – established modern Satanism.
4 Grigori Rasputin – a controversial spiritual figure in Russian history.
5 Osho – a spiritual teacher known for controversial teachings and communes.
6 Jesus Christ – the foundational figure of Christianity.
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
That picture is actually of Gerald Gardner, the guy who founded (kind of? Its complicated) the religion of Wicca.
That’s literally Gerald’s Wikipedia picture, while Manley Hall kina looks like he’d be a groyper twink if he were alive today
To answer the question though, white Jesus easily has the most toxic fan club, by sheer volume of followers.
Anton LaVey was an edgy fuck though, so he probably gets 2nd place for just being kinda cringe ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The second guy looks like he smoked a lot of weed.
Trick question, the answer is always Beyonce
Not Taylor Swift?
if we’re talking about lemmy, it’s Stalin
(explanation: satanists are generally chill, and he looks like Kane 🤣)
CoS/LaVey are more like the petulant libertarian flavor of satanism.
Satanic Temple are the chill ones
Marie Curie’s fans are practically radioactive.
5 has the best quote. I don’t agree with the sentiment (most days), but it is absolutely hilarious: " […] democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are… retarded."
7 Apophis - once an extremely powerful Goa’uld System Lord. Arch enemy of the Tau’ri, he impersonated the ancient Egyptian deity of chaos, darkness and fire.
Apophis is a false god. Say it with me, it’s what you really believe.
You will pay for your insolence. With your life.
#6 m’lord
Which one has people knocking on my door again?
That’s probably those damned Rasputin’s Witnesses.
Yea, it’s Jesus
3 Belief in or acknowledgment of a satan just reinforces and legitimizes christianity.
LaVeyan satanists aren’t deistic, they don’t actually believe in Satan.
They don’t need to.
I feel the inclusion of Jesus does this list a disservice, could have been like a Buddha, Mohamed, Jesus… List and I think that would have been better because of the league Jesus is playing in. Basically skews the list.
But the first 5 in the list is an awesome list to choose from. I would say Rasputin due to the shit show Russia was going to be put through that I feel he was the straw that broke the camel’s back and led to cascading events I feel still persists
I don’t know but I find number three wildly amusing. Some parts of my former edgy 16 year old libertarian atheist refuse to die.
… we all know the answer 😶
Jesus, by far. The people who have been murdered in his name is probably close to or over a good billion, right?
He’s not really a “foundational figure of Christianity” though, his image was just co-opted by the Roman empire which then created the religion also co-opting the actual “Jewish revival” Jesus was at the core of (bringing the fundamentals of monotheism back into mind and expanding the teachings to everyone, not just a small select community).
