First Satanic Church

First Satanic Church
First Satanic Church
	Church founder Karla LaVey during a "Black X-Mass" celebration.
Abbreviation	FSC
Type	New religious movement (Satanism)
Classification	Atheistic Satanism
Orientation	LaVeyan Satanism
Scripture	The Satanic Bible
Theology	Autotheism
High Priestess	Karla LaVey
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Founder	Karla LaVey
Origin	October 31, 1999 ; San Francisco, California
Separated from	Church of Satan (1999)
Official website	www.firstsatanicchurch.com

The First Satanic Church is an organization founded by Karla LaVey on October 31, 1999, in San Francisco, California. The church is dedicated to LaVeyan Satanism as codified by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible. The church's stated mission is to carry on the legacy of Anton LaVey through "the study of Satanism and the occult sciences".^[1] For over a decade the church operated The 600 Club, a now-defunct Internet forum dedicated to discussions of Satanism.^[2]

The church's website claims the organization to have been founded in 1966, and the 1999 date to be a "re-establishment" of the original Church of Satan, claiming direct continuity with Anton LaVey. Karla asserts that she is re-representing the original teachings of her father from which the current administration of the Church of Satan has departed, and maintains an elitist stance of her father's original organization. Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible is stated as required reading prior to joining the First Satanic Church.^[3]

^ "About the Church". Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
^ Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (2005). Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. p. 453. ISBN 978-0-19-515683-6.
^ Gallagher, Eugene V.; Ashcraft, W. Michael (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-313-05078-7.

[1] "About the Church". Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2010-12-04.

[2] Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (2005). Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. p. 453. ISBN 978-0-19-515683-6.

[GallagherAshcroft-3] Gallagher, Eugene V.; Ashcraft, W. Michael (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-313-05078-7.

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