A researcher from Concordia University recently published a journal article with some rare access to high level Satanists exploring what they think about death and dying.

Read the article here:  http://artsciweb.concordia.ca/ojs/index.php/jrc/article/view/34/11

in 1966 Anton LeVey founded the Church of Satan  in San Fransisco. He is also the author of the cannon for the group, The Satanic Bible first published in 1969.

Today, the church is based in New York:  http://www.churchofsatan.com/home.html

One of the main tenets of the faith is atheism. Not just a disbelief in God but also in the devil or Satan. Satanists believe God is an invention of man and instead deify themselves.

 
According to the official website of the Church of Satan: “We Satanists are thus our own ‘Gods,’ and as beneficent ‘deities’ we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm.”