According to the satanic club\u2019s website<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n The mission of Satanic Students at NC State University is to 1) encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, 2) reject tyrannical authority, 3) advocate scientific examination of the universe and our place in it, 4) promote morality and justice based on rational, humanistic values, and 5) be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Technician<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the official student newspaper of NC State University, a recent slide presentation at a Satanic Students meeting denied that the club worships Satan because \u201cSatan doesn\u2019t exist\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t make any sense. If the Satanic Students at NC State believe Satan doesn\u2019t exist, then why call the club \u201cSatanic\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n The satanic club\u2019s founder and president is Peter Aker<\/strong>, a third-year studying chemical engineering. He said the purpose of the club is not to be inflammatory or to promote any particular system of beliefs, but that \u201cSatanism is more of a philosophy and ideology, and not so much a religion. We don\u2019t believe in a literal Satan. Instead, we use its philosophy and the symbology behind it to form our opinions on the way the world should go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Aker claims his club has \u201cthe same amount of validity\u201d as other religious groups on campus, but has a better message \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s more modern. It\u2019s less restrictive and puritan. We don\u2019t preach that you\u2019re going to go to Hell if you do bad things \u2026 What matters is what you do here, while you\u2019re alive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, it\u2019s the same old Aleister Crowleyism \u2014 Do As Thou Will.<\/span><\/p>\n Aker admitted that his club\u2019s five-part mission statement<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is based loosely off of the seven tenets of The Satanic Temple, which Aker lauds for advocating topics such as women\u2019s reproductive rights that was promoted by several of the temple\u2019s chapters as \u201cMenstruatin\u2019 With Satan<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u201d in which feminine health care products were collected and redistributed to communities in need.<\/span><\/p>\n Alec Nabinger<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a fourth-year student studying sustainable materials and technology, described some of Satanic Students\u2019 principles to which he was drawn when he joined the club: \u201cIt\u2019s more of just, the Satanic ideals of bodily autonomy, knowledge through science, accountability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Aker said the club has 8 members.<\/span><\/p>\n A 2017 column in Crisis Magazine<\/em> addressed the rise of \u201cSatanism\u201d groups in America (Breitbart<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n The real issue is all about the mainstreaming of Satanism in America. Much as the same-sex \u2018marriage\u2019 debate was about acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, so also Satanic groups seek social acceptance. Indeed, this is what the Satanists themselves declare. For them, it has nothing to do with religious practices. Many of them even allege they have none. They simply want to mainstream Satanism so that it will be viewed as normal.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Peter-Aker-founder-president-of-Satanic-Students-at-NC-State\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Peter-Aker-founder-president-of-Satanic-Students-at-NC-State.jpg\")
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