Een van de vele treffende citaten die uit “The Satanic Scriptures” gehaald kunnen worden. Deze parel komt uit het essay “On Elaboration and Justice”:

“Culturally our philosophy promotes the idea that a diverse range of choices should be open to the aware individual. The availability of such options will always threaten tyrants who wish to force “infidels”, often on pain of death, towards conversion to their “One True Way”. It does not matter which deity is being depicted benignly spreading his or her arms for the forced followers. Satanists see this embrace as that offered by the “Virgin of Nuremberg” and we refuse it.”