If you actually knew anything about it, there are different forms and it usually doesnt have to do with the devil, it is about empowering yourself as an individual and understanding primal needs and urges.
Calling that Satanism might not be the most tactful choice of words... Just saying.
In fact Satanism and Devil worshipers are two different things.
Real Satanism is not evil,as the chuch says so or some stupid sick people who belive in dark forces or immoral behavior or mainstream metal bands who promote it, but its an idea of god, who is seen to encourage individuality and freedom of thought. In the Old Testament Satan is presented as someone who tests the people on this earth in order to develop them as individuals. It is believed that Satan wants a more equal relationship with his followers than the Abrahamic God does with his. You see, Christianity some times define peoples disbelief as a rebellion against their God. Satanists seek to remove any means by which they are controlled, repressed and forced by other individuals to follow the herd, and they also reject the government, which is one of the biggest problems for the rich fanatics in this material world.
Devil worshipers is derogratory term invented by the corrupt church in the period of 1450 to 1750 to make a mass hysteria and manipulation over the population by burning and killing many innocent women(including men) who were falsely accused as witches of black magic or devil worshipers.In fact many of the women(or in other words widows) that were murdered owned big lands that the church took over after their deaths.There is no real evidence that a devil cult, as it was called, ever existed in those days. Its description was the result of the imaginings of a certain group formed by manipulative people on higher levels in society.Without the writings of Christian anti-devil worshipers,the alleged devil could not exist. As for the worship of sacred objects or in worst cases such as the sacrifice of an infant, these things belonged to the pagan culture which existed since the birth of mankind.At various times pagan worship has been called the Devil worship.In the old days the priests blamed this devil woshipers for everything wrong that occurred. Some times the church even blamed these people for the crimes that the church its self commited.Similar thing goes today with the term "conspiracy theorist" which is also a derogratory term invented and used by egoistic people(or people involved in conspiracies) who want to dismiss a critical thinker or other people different beliefs.
I also love the example of a large hoax which was carried out by Leo Taxil. Taxil was a 19th century famous French journalist.One day he started publishing many writings detailing a vast devil worship organization known as the Palladian Order. Suddenly the leaders of the Church leaped at the chance to support this anti-Palladian crusade.Later Taxil announced that his writings were fraudulent and he had written them only to demonstrate the power of manipulation and the gullibility and superstition of the Catholic Church.
A lot things are twisted in the world by certain powerful fanatics with lies and manipulation, and the sad thing is that we, the general public, always accept it. Dont get me worng, im an orthodox christian but theres a lot of people on higher levels who give a bad name to my religion and i think that those people should be named "devil worshipers"
"speak the lie so loud that truth becomes a lie"
