I was raised in a house that talked more about the devil than it did about God, and more about being afraid of Satan than loving God, about how God is a vending machine, and if i say the magic words "i believe" that i will get a cushy materialistic afterlife filled with pleasure in a worldly sense, if i give the pastor a private jet, I'll get one in my lifetime too. The fear of God was instilled in me by being afraid of God, being taught to hate him when i don't get what i want, and "love" him when i do.
In this house, even now, my mother talks more about the devil, about demons, about evil this and evil that, family curses brought on by Gods wrath at something my forefathers must have done, even though they were Christians themselves, than she ever does talk about the love of God, or his mercy.
Eventually I was able to escape this way of thinking and seek Christ for Him, not money, not protection out of fear, and I have learned to love Him, albeit i still have a long way to go for the love to be anywhere close to his. This experience has however instilled in me a disdain for the blatant satan-worship, demonism, materialistic "vending god" view of God, terror of God, magic phrases, etc that runs rampant in america and other bible-belt regions that have been infested by american "culture." I want to ask you, /christian/, is there any biblical basis to this satan-worship or was i raised in a pagan household by antichrists? How do i guard myself and others against this, and how do i get others out of it?