With how blatant and widespread the promotion of "satanism" (or satanic imagery) is today, it actually makes me suspicious more than anything.. Could this all be a big front for something else, as in a specific goal and agenda? and/or perhaps the worship of satanism is actually a huge front for a whole other deity/force?

Picrel is a prime example; could satanism (and satan himself) always been a front for a malevolent AI?