My point is that almost nothing in the Western Left Hand Path is found outside of the mainstream of Western thought and mainstream Western society.
Is that why the Baphomet statue in Oklahoma, or the prayer in Arizona, or the satanic school books in Florida went over so well? Is that why satanists have to keep their religion private, refrain from sporting pentagram or other satanic jewelry on the clock, and were actively hunted on a national scale as recently as the 90s?
There isn't all that much that separates it from the Western "RHP". Both have their dogmas, both view humans as having some special importance (at least with Setianism and some other forms of theistic Satanism and Luciferianism), both are against physical/actual/objective antinomianism (i.e. they would object in totality to things such as bestiality, necrophilia, cannibalism, murder, etc.) and both have some version or degree of dualism.
Yes there is dualism, and no, we feel no need to shock people by being heterodox. But to say the left and right are similar is embarrassingly ignorant. For example, any morality or dogma held by us is going to be enforced by us,decided by us in the first place. I am only dogmatic towards my personal, individualized religion, and that is categorically different from the dogma of Catholicism. Also, claiming that you accept heterodox practices hardly suggests you actually do it. It's the spook fest ONA type stuff, we know you're not rolling around in corpses so stop pretending you are! The WLHPer will do it if they want, and not if they are no benefit to it. I also don't think accepting the nature of human intelligence is the same as putting humans on a pedestal. I mean say we have the ability to use our superior intelligence to save a species or fix climate change. Would you really just sit there repeating "we aren't special, we aren't capable, we are pure ****"? Or would you take advantage of it? If your loved one was chocking would you use your understanding of the human body to perform cpr, or let them die because all other animals would?
LaVey, Aquino or abstract figures such as Set are treated with pretty much unquestioning reverence, that they have become cult figures.
Uh, what? Most people barely respect LaVey these days, and I see non Laveyans openly disagree constantly. I also see plenty of debate with Aquino, especially if you actually read ToS. Material. Hell, Don Webb put out a book with both their AL commentaries, the two of which differ and have been widely read. As for Set or similar figures, they foundational represent something completely contrary to the picture you paint. You may be confused by the fact that some of us use these beings as role models, as they represent the attainment we desire. This is still not the same as a cult following, and actually is psychologically beneficial in goal setting.
Setianism itself, at least the Temple of Set version, is basically the Western LHP equivalent of Islam since it is based on alleged channeled messages from an entity calling itself Set, which bears little appearance to the ancient Egyptian deity (which, by the way, implicitly entails accepting such false Biblical details such as the Exodus and the Jew's sojourn in Egypt). I don't see much questioning of Aquino's alleged channeled messages. Why is that?
Lol wait, how does Setianism require exodus to be true? I've literally never heard that. Setianism isn't a neo Egyptian religion, it is a satanic religion with an Egyptian lens and inspiration. Even the most basic articles on the ToS website explain this. I also think it's silly to say the path is based on a channeled message, unless you take all religions literally at face value.
You are absolutely and wholly ignorant on this topic, and you have objectively proven such. Please shut it and stop intentionally misrepresenting our position.