Also when did;
Black = Satan?
That's just horribly misconstrued.
Black is a color.
Just because a few handful of people out of 6 billion will use black candles for their own intents does not mean that black itself is of Satan.
To say so is to be as ignorant as to say,
Satan = God.
Also:
ChristianityChrist as a Pentagram, from Valeriano Bolzani's Hieroglyphica (Basel, 1556)The pentagram is used as a Christian symbol for the five senses,[12] and if the letters S, A, L, V, and S are inscribed in the points, it can be taken as a symbol of health (from Latin salus).[13]
Medieval Christians believed that the "pentalpha" symbolises the five wounds of Christ. The pentagram was believed to protect against witches and demons.[14]
The pentagram figured in a heavily symbolic Arthurian romance:[14] it appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. As the poet explains, the five points of the star each have five meanings: they represent the five senses, the five fingers, the five wounds of Christ,[15] the five joys that Mary had of Jesus (the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption), and the five virtues of knighthood which Gawain hopes to embody: noble generosity, fellowship, purity, courtesy, and compassion.
Most Christians, probably due to their misinterpretation of symbols used by ceremonial magicians, came to associate it with Satanism and subsequently rejected the symbol sometime in the twentieth century.[14]
SatanismSatanic Pentagram.Satanists use a pentagram with two points up, often inscribed in a double circle, with the head of a goat inside the pentagram. This is referred to as the Sigil of Baphomet. They use it much the same way as the Pythagoreans, as Tartaros literally translates from Greek as a "Pit" or "Void" in Christian terminology (the word is used as such in the Bible, referring to the place where the fallen angels are fettered). The Pythagorean Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolising rejection of the holy Trinity and the horns pointing up in defiance of conventional religious (spiritual) dogma.
NeopaganismA typical Neopagan pentagram (circumscribed).Many Neopagans, especially Wiccans, use the pentagram as a symbol of faith similar to the Christian cross or the Jewish Star of David. It is not, however, a universal symbol for Neopaganism, and is rarely used by Reconstructionists. Its religious symbolism is commonly explained by reference to the neo-Pythagorean understanding that the five vertices of the pentagram represent the four elements with the addition of Spirit as the uppermost point. As a representation of the elements, the pentagram is involved in the Wiccan practice of summoning the elemental spirits of the four directions at the beginning of a ritual.
The outer circle of the circumscribed pentagram is sometimes interpreted as binding the elements together or bringing them into harmony with each other. The Neopagan pentagram is generally displayed with one point up, partly because of the "inverted" goat's head pentagram's association with Satanism; however, within traditional forms of Wicca a pentagram with two points up is associated with the Second Degree Initiation and in this context has no relation to Satanism.[18]
Because of a perceived association with Satanism and also because of negative societal attitudes towards Neopagan religions and the "occult", many United States schools have sought to prevent students from displaying the pentagram on clothing or jewelry.[19][20][21] In public schools, such actions by administrators have been determined to be in violation of students' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.[22]
*Quotes courtesy of Wikipedia~
Pentagrams have been used by more than just Satanists, and certainly didn't originate from them. A pentagram means only what you want it to mean, seeing as the only symbol that has any real power is the Cross.
Other symbols only have power if you give them that power over you.
A pentagram isn't inherently evil, even if you have a two points up one.
It's just like the Swastika.
When anyone ever says that they think;
Nazis, so therefore a swastika is bad as well.
What a lot of people don't know is that the swastika used to be used as an every day thing, still is in India.
But since the Nazis used their in their regime, Western societies have dubbed it a thing of evil and haven't looked at it since. Germany has even made it illegal in their country.
It has been used since the Neolithic ages, yet a few decades can forever condemn a single symbol to evilry by the close minded people of main stream societies.
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