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Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. This article contained a short ref to Lewis & Petersen 2014 that had no corresponding cite. However a cite for "Controversial New Religions" edited by Lewis & Petersen 2005 did exist. Controversial New Religions was actually published in 2014, so that should solve the problem. However as I was searching for a solution I read page 408 of Controversial New Religions.
Currently the text in the article that was using this ref is Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype embracing the Hebrew root of the word "Satan" as "adversary", who represents pride, carnality, and enlightenment, and of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be motivated by a "dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things"
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The text in Controversial New Religions is actually a quote of Gilmoir 2007 "Satanism: The Feared Religion" and appears as In "Satanism: The Feared Religion," Peter H. Gilmore states:
[W]e do not believe in the supernatural. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dic tates. Some Satanists extend this symbol to encompass the evolutionary "force" of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. To the Satanist, Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshiped, rather it is a name for the reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. (Gilmore 2007: 31)
The current version, specifically "dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things", appears to have been picked up and used elsewhere but doesn't appear in the source material. Also the current version appears to be a very different interpretations of the subject than the source material.
I don't have the subject knowledge to resolve this issue, so I have removed the ref and added {{ citation needed}} tags. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆ transmissions∆ ° co-ords° 13:29, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
I'm just wondering if anybody is going to add something about An American Satan (2019) and Into The. Devil's Den (2019) as they're both newer documentaries on the contemporary Church of Satan. MikoMek ( talk) 21:28, 8 May 2023 (UTC)