Talk:Church of Satan

What seems like OR or possibly false referencing
I'm working my way through Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. This article contained a short ref to Lewis & Petersen 2014 that had no corresponding cite. However a cite for "Controversial New Religions" edited by Lewis & Petersen 2005 did exist. Controversial New Religions was actually published in 2014, so that should solve the problem. However as I was searching for a solution I read page 408 of Controversial New Religions. Currently the text in the article that was using this ref is Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype embracing the Hebrew root of the word "Satan" as "adversary", who represents pride, carnality, and enlightenment, and of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be motivated by a "dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things".
 * this text no longer appears in the article and there is no citation for Controversial New Religions --Louis P. Boog (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

The text in Controversial New Religions is actually a quote of Gilmoir 2007 "Satanism: The Feared Religion" and appears as In "Satanism: The Feared Religion," Peter H. Gilmore states: [W]e do not believe in the supernatural. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dic tates. Some Satanists extend this symbol to encompass the evolutionary "force" of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. To the Satanist, Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshiped, rather it is a name for the reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. (Gilmore 2007: 31)
 * put this text in the article - ....-Louis P. Boog (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

The current version, specifically "dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things", appears to have been picked up and used elsewhere but doesn't appear in the source material. Also the current version appears to be a very different interpretations of the subject than the source material.
 * and deleted this text from the article -Louis P. Boog (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I don't have the subject knowledge to resolve this issue, so I have removed the ref and added citation needed tags. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 13:29, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @ActivelyDisinterested Am attempting to cleanup CoS article. Do you see any more problems before I delete the tags? --Louis P. Boog (talk) 02:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The particular OR issue I highlighted has been resolved, if your happy with the wrest of the article the that tag could go. I didn't add the Third Party tag, but I can see why it was added. A large part of the references are either directly from The Church of Satan or an interview with the High Priest of the church. That hasn't been resolved so I would suggest leaving the tag in place. -- LCU A ctively D isinterested  «@» °∆t° 13:01, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @ActivelyDisinterested Will work on the 3rd party issue. --Louis P. Boog (talk) 22:01, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @ActivelyDisinterested Actually, this seems to have been a mistake (I think). There are two books called Controversial New Religions written by Lewis & Petersen. The first in 2005, and a second book in 2014. They present themselves as different "editions" but are in fact two different books with 0 content overlap (Lewis has done this multiple times, it's very confusing). Page 425-430 of the 2005 book does state the content that you removed. I'm not too involved in this page but that probably wasn't an OR issue. Just wanted to correct the record. PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Will anyone add new documentaries?
I'm just wondering if anybody is going to add something about An American Satan (2019) and Into The. Devil's Den (2019) as they're both newer documentaries on the contemporary Church of Satan. MikoMek (talk) 21:28, 8 May 2023 (UTC)