Anton LaVey was a character. He was right in the fact that modern witches and wiccans don't want to be associated with Satanism. Who does?

Where I disagree is that we all feel the need to denigrate each other over our beliefs. He was referring to modern wicca and reconstructionist witches looking down their noses at Satanism.

I see it as a valid path for some people if that is what they choose. Personally I don't know why you would want to go down such a dark path, but that's just me.

Almost all self proclaimed satanists don't believe in a literal satan. LaVey didn't either. Matter of fact, he told the FBI that satanism was 'a completely made up thing"