But, after that, I realized that it really is associated with Christianity, which I abhor. Without Christianity, would there even be Satanism?
That's my feelings too. Satan is a construct of Christianity, so to build a religion around Satan just supports the very idea of Christianity.
Why bother? All it does is support the biblical Satan.
I personally feel like it was just a really poorly planned out version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Originally intended to spite and reject Christianity, whilst unknowlingly actually giving the religion support by supporting the concept of Satan.
I posted earlier in this thread that the religion sounded quite 'reasonable' to me. What I meant by that is that their "Commandments and moral values" sounded reasonable. Not the idea of the religion in general.
The excerpt of the Satantic Bible that I read sounded wiser and more reasonable than the Holy Bible, and that's all I meant by that.