The need for friendship and being an individual

 Friendship and comraderie is a human need. You can't be less than human and have friends. 

Much of what the Church of Satan said about it being a coven for non joiners isnt something unique to an institution. 

The Satanic Bible was thought to be a stumbling block to one ex cultist recovering from trauma until she sat in my literal car and saw that it was just bare bones skinny wisdom that allows me to be myself in the world. If Lucifer were a cop that kept the streets clean from dirty occultists that threatened real clean work done by real common sense occultists, then all the Satanic Bible is is a passport and a form of fun Jungian innocence so as not to lose ones spiritual connection. (That's Jesus wisdom btw. For those who are against Jesus but for The Church of Satan its like demanding the government not mess with your medicaid. Same irony.) 

The real spiritual wisdom of what The Church of Satan is supposed to represent but that no institution can represent is that unless an individual human is willing to walk alone then Jesus cant be anyones savior and that would make the world worse. 

But intimacy is just in the world of experience real friendships and trust get built on experience without losing your true self. 

I have one female friend who'd been in love with me my whole life that i wasnt fully consciously aware of. 

Mainly because her godhood is friendship and mine is individual humanism fundamentally. 

But just because your in love with someone you just crave human intimacy. 

I may represent that but it doesnt make me that. 

But as far as Jesus goes obedience is sometimes a form of rejection of salvation. But more to the point there's no person God or man that can take a persons humanity away and claim any kind of moral high ground. 

That's why God argued for his own nonexistence to save humanity. (Quentin Smith)

But friendship is something that doesnt require sexual intimacy. Sometimes sex would ruin friendship. Social skills on an individual basis and the willingness to walk alone is the only way to not make friendship a leverage. Because if you did then youd lose your humanity and have no friends anyway. 

Pretentiousness is a guide to whats right or wrong, not loyalty. Because people are sometimes loyal and sometimes not. Only being human is the constant always.