Any info about "Satanisk Danmark"/"Dansk Satanisk Forbund"?

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Leading scholar on Satanism, Jesper Pedersen, recently shared an article in which he is being quoted on a Satanic organization looking for legal recognition: https://echo.tv2.dk/2025-09-04-satanister-vil-anerkendes-som-trossamfund . (It's in Danish, but Google Translate will probably do a decent job).

It reports a person being ordained as a priest in the US and having received a diploma (but that's probably in an unrelated field), who has started a Satanic organization that wants legal recognition. I am guessing it means he took The Satanic Temple's ordination class.

For the record: Denmark is "the country of organization" in the sense that we are highly communal around choice options. Whenever someone has an idea, they start an organization, and very often that's just it. I'm not saying this to downplay the organizer's efforts, only avoid making it sound overly fantastic.

About twenty years ago, Danish so-called "Satanisk Forum" similarly investigated the idea of a formal, legal recognition as a faith as well. In those, days, it took many more people than just the 50 quoted in the article, and although we could readily have raised this number, Satanisk Forum decided to ignore the option because it makes no legal difference beyond allowing the organization to legally marry people.

Posted Sep 6, 2025, 2:26 PM UTC

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