Yah but Vici satanism stems from people who actually worshipped the devil and did very disturbing things because of it, including murder and torture.

Your 'religion' history is just as bad so maybe you should take your own advice and rethink that.

Things done in the past by popes like witch hunting/ the crusades were more done for power than actual religious means and they often lied about stuff like God would forgive the crusaders etc when they sinned by killing innocents and it was alright, these were the actions of people not the religion because the Bible does not state any thing about killing other people unlike the first forms of satanism that told people to go sacrifice others and them selves