The Three Roads Satan Loves

The True Path of Sanctification

God is love. That is the eternal truth. He made us for Himself, to live in His love forever. The way of sanctification is the way of becoming holy in Him — not in fragments, not in self-made programs, but by being conformed to Christ through the Spirit.

The Catholic Church is the steward of this path in its fullness. She holds the sacraments, the true teaching, the treasury of grace. Yet the Holy Spirit blows where He wills (Jn 3:8), stirring hearts across every age and culture. The law of God is written on every heart (Rom 2:15). All goodness, wherever it is found, comes from Him. And yet, sanctification reaches its fullness in Christ’s Body, the Church.

The path of sanctification is simple: to live in God’s love, to walk in His commandments, to let His light overcome our darkness, and to let His peace reign in us. This path is our true home, and Satan’s only mission is to pull us away from it.

He has many tricks, but three main roads keep appearing in history. They are Pride, Inversion, and Expressionism. All three are loved by Satan because each one breaks us from the sanctifying love of God.

Pride — “I Will Be Like God”

Explanation

Pride is the first and most ancient rebellion. It is Lucifer’s fall: “I will ascend to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of God… I will make myself like the Most High” (Is 14:13–14). Pride does not worship evil as good, nor does it glorify the impulse — it simply seeks to dethrone God. Pride wants control, glory, autonomy. It is the road of those who try to be gods without God.

Examples in History

• Tower of Babel (Gen 11): humanity sought to “make a name” for themselves.

• Pharaoh of Exodus: “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice?” (Ex 5:2).

• Roman Emperors: demanded worship as divine.

• Nietzsche’s Übermensch: humanity remaking morality by sheer will.

People Who Exemplify It

• Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 4): humbled by God after claiming all glory for himself.

• Napoleon Bonaparte: a modern emblem of self-deification through conquest.

• Nietzsche: the philosopher who declared, “God is dead,” and exalted man as his own god.

Modern Strains

• Totalitarian rulers (Stalin, Mao, Hitler): exalted themselves as saviors, demanding total obedience.

• Technological utopianism: transhumanist movements that claim man will conquer death by his own ingenuity.

• Everyday self-idolatry: “I decide what is right for me,” the common creed of secular modernity.

Modern Strains Expanded

Pride today looks like the exaltation of self, power, and control — whether through politics, technology, or cultural influence.

• Authoritarian rulers: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un — leaders who exalt themselves and demand near-religious loyalty.

• Transhumanist technologists: Ray Kurzweil (Google futurist), Elon Musk’s Neuralink project, Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus” — voices proclaiming humanity will conquer death, redesign itself, and become godlike.

• Western cultural elites: Ayn Rand’s Objectivism (the self as highest value), Ayn Rand Institute, Silicon Valley’s culture of “human power.”

• Corporate empires: World Economic Forum, Davos culture, where technocrats envision global redesign without reference to God.

Inversion — “Evil is Good”

Explanation

Inversion goes further: it does not just seek autonomy; it delights in calling evil good and good evil (Is 5:20). It desecrates, mocks, and twists what is holy. Evil itself is praised as beautiful. Where Pride enthrones the self, Inversion enthrones blasphemy.

Examples in History

• Canaanite worship of Baal/Molech: child sacrifice treated as sacred.

• Cainites (2nd c.): honored Cain, Judas, and Sodomites as enlightened.

• Carpocratians (2nd c.): taught that salvation required committing every sin.

• Sabbateans (17th c.): “redemption through sin.”

• Frankists (18th c.): sexual transgression as holy inversion.

• Marquis de Sade (18th–19th c.): cruelty and blasphemy as philosophy.

People Who Exemplify It

• Marquis de Sade: “true” pleasure found in cruelty and violation.

• Charles Baudelaire: in Les Fleurs du mal, sin and corruption elevated into aesthetic beauty.

Modern Strains

• Satanism in open form: LaVeyan Satanists call lust, greed, pride “virtues.”

• Cultural glorification of abortion and desecration: presented as empowerment.

• Art and media that revel in blasphemy: treating sacrilege as the highest expression of creativity.

• Academic defenses of perversion: philosophy that praises taboo-breaking as enlightenment.

Modern Strains Expanded

Inversion today shows up where evil is openly called beautiful, sacred, or liberating.

• Satanist movements: Church of Satan (Anton LaVey, 1966); Temple of Set (Michael Aquino, 1975); The Satanic Temple (Lucien Greaves, 2013) — groups that explicitly call traditional sins virtues.

• Artists who glorify blasphemy: Marina Abramović (ritualized desecration in “spirit cooking”), Damien Hirst (art of death and mockery of sacred images), black metal bands like Mayhem or Gorgoroth (overt Satanic aesthetics).

• Philosophers and writers: Michel Foucault (celebrated transgression as truth), André Gide (normalized pederasty), Georges Bataille (linked eroticism with sacrilege).

• Abortion activists and movements: Shout Your Abortion campaign; Planned Parenthood’s ideological wing — framing destruction of life as empowerment and sacred right.

Expressionism — “My Impulse is Truth”

Explanation

Expressionism is subtler. It does not exalt power, nor worship evil. Instead, it worships the impulse itself. Whatever urge arises must be expressed, whether it is feeding a hungry child or betraying a friend. Good or evil do not matter; authenticity of desire is the only law.

Examples in History

• Ancient Cyrenaics: taught that immediate pleasure is the only good.

• Romantics (Rimbaud, Verlaine): intoxication, passion, raw impulse exalted.

• Freud: repression is sickness, liberation is health.

• Beats (Ginsberg, Kerouac): celebrated sexual and drug impulses without measure.

People Who Exemplify It

• Arthur Rimbaud: “I is another,” dissolving identity into sensation.

• Allen Ginsberg: defended impulses even when they led to the defense of NAMBLA.

• Aleister Crowley: “Do what thou wilt” — not inversion of good into evil, but enthronement of will and impulse itself.

Modern Strains

• Therapy culture: “follow your desire, never repress.”

• Pop psychology: equates authenticity with doing whatever one feels.

• Celebrity culture: impulse-driven lives glamorized, from philanthropy one day to debauchery the next.

• Consumerism and amusement: constant pursuit of impulses for ease, food, sex, and entertainment.

Modern Strains Expanded

Expressionism today is visible wherever “authenticity” is defined as following every urge, regardless of good or evil.

• Literary and cultural figures: Allen Ginsberg (defended NAMBLA), Jack Kerouac (celebrated impulse-driven life), Hunter S. Thompson (drug-fueled “gonzo” authenticity).

• Psychoanalytic and therapeutic heirs: Wilhelm Reich (Freud’s radical disciple, “sexual revolution” pioneer), Herbert Marcuse (Frankfurt School, “polymorphous perversity”), Alfred Kinsey (Kinsey Reports normalized sexual impulses of every kind).

• Movements: 1960s counterculture (hippies, free love communes), Woodstock generation, Burning Man festival — built on impulse expression as sacred community.

• Modern celebrity culture: Madonna (sexual transgression as self-expression), Lady Gaga (“born this way” impulse-identity creed), Kanye West’s chaos-driven authenticity persona.

• Consumerist movements: advertising industry’s “obey your thirst” campaigns (e.g. Nike, Pepsi, Sprite slogans), built entirely around impulse as the law.

The Transition Back to Sanctification

All three paths — Pride, Inversion, and Expressionism — are loved by Satan, because all three break us from the sanctifying love of God.

• Pride wants to be God without God.

• Inversion calls evil itself holy.

• Expressionism discards holiness altogether, enthroning urge as the highest law.

These paths are the great distortions. They are ancient and modern, dressed in a thousand costumes. They appear in empires, sects, philosophies, art, psychology, and culture. But all are false.

The one true path is sanctification: holiness in God’s love. The Catholic Church holds its fullness, nourished by the sacraments and guarded by truth. The Spirit works even in hidden places, whispering God’s law into every human heart.

To walk this path is to turn from pride, inversion, and expressionism, and to live in love, light, goodness, beauty, and peace. This is the way God prepared for us before the foundation of the world — the way Satan hates and the saints have walked.