Venator - “... Devil worship doesn't look like a good alternative...”
No probably not. I'm not sure I could worship the devil without bursting into fits of laughter. Drawing pentagrams on the floor, chanting and parading around in cloaks with a goats head just looks very, very silly to me. Mind you, it's no more silly than taking sacramental bread from a priest and then drinking communion wine and believing that these two items instantaneously transmogrify into the flesh of and blood of Christ respectively. In fact, now I think about it, the two ceremonies are not that dissimilar – the obsession with blood seems to permeate both beliefs...