PENTAGONAL REVISIONISM:
A FIVE-POINT PROGRAM

by Anton Szandor LaVey ©1988

In recent years, we’ve wasted far too much time explaining that Satanism has
nothing to do with kidnapping, drug abuse, child molestation, animal or child
sacrifice, or any number of other acts that idiots, hysterics or opportunists
would like to credit us with. Satanism is a life-loving, rational philosophy
that millions of people adhere to. Now we’re ready for something that goes
quite a few steps beyond just explaining our principles. Every revisionist
movement needs a set of goals/guidelines that are clear, concrete, and that
will effect significant changes.

The following Five-Point Program reflects attitudes which allow others to
decide whether they wish to align themselves with Satanism or not. Each is
necessary for Satanic change to take place. When asked what we’re “doing,”
here’s the answer:

1. Stratification — The point on which all the others ultimately rest. There
can be no more myth of “equality” for all—it only translates to “mediocrity”
and supports the weak at the expense of the strong. Water must be allowed to
seek its own level without interference from apologists for incompetence. No
one should be protected from the effects of his own stupidity.

2. Strict taxation of all churches — If churches were taxed for all their income
and property, they’d crumble overnight of their own obsolescence, and the National
Debt would be wiped out as quickly. The productive, the creative, the resourceful
should be subsidized. So long as the useless and incompetent are getting paid,
they should be heavily taxed.

3. No tolerance for religious beliefs secularized and incorporated into law
and order issues — to re-establish “Lex Talionis” would require a complete
overturning of the present in-justice system based on Judeo-Christian ideals,
where the victim/defender has been made the criminal. Amnesty should be considered
for anyone in prison because of his alleged “influence” upon the actual perpetrator
of the crime. Everyone is influenced in what he or she does. Scapegoating has
become a way of life, a means of survival for the unfit. As an extension of the
Judeo-Christian cop-out of blaming the Devil for everything, criminals can gain
leniency, even praise, by placing the blame on a convenient villain. Following
the Satanic creed of “Responsibility to the responsible,” in a Satanic society,
everyone must experience the consequences of his own actions—for good or ill.

4. Development and production of artificial human companions — The forbidden
industry. An economic “godsend” which will allow everyone “power” over someone
else. Polite, sophisticated, technologically feasible slavery. And the most
profitable industry since T.V. and the computer.

5. The opportunity for anyone to live within a total environment of his or
her choice, with mandatory adherence to the aesthetic and behavioral standards
of same — Privately owned, operated and controlled environments as an alternative
to homogenized and polyglot ones. The freedom to insularize oneself within a social
milieu of personal well-being. An opportunity to feel, see, and hear that which
is most aesthetically pleasing, without interference from those who would pollute
or detract from that option.

This is the encapsulated version of the current thrust of Satanic advocacy.
So when someone asks you, “Well, what do Satanists do?”, you will be qualified
to tell him. 



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