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It was created by American occultist Anton LaVey, and promotes the beliefs that there are no gods or higher beings; that humans have great capacity for self-improvement, but are carnal beings; that there is no afterlife; and that humans are, in effect, gods themselves, able to determine their own destinies by exercising self-will. LaVey named the movement after Satan to shock people, and adopted the sinister goat-headed deity, Baphomet, as its symbol. Yet Satanists, as atheists, do not believe in the Devil—Satan being a Christian concept, if there is no God, there is no Satan.
