Hypothesis: when Pat Robertson and Jack Chick et al rail against "Satanists" and "satanic cults", what if they know whereof they speak?

Any such cult would of course be (a) biblical fundamentalists (they just believe the other side is going to win), (b) very secretive and therefore -- presumably -- tightly disciplined, and (c) due to their small size (implicit, or we'd know about them by now) working to achieve their goals through infiltration and subversion rather than evangelism.

If you're already a biblical fundamentalist (of the wrong type) what would be a better target than to take over the leadership of the opposition and preach a perverted version of their creed that has more in common with your satanic master's desires than with the guy who was into turning the other cheek and helping out lepers and prostitutes? Killing homosexuals, dissidents, uppity women, and anyone who doesn't adhere to your particularly nasty dualist world-view: that's a cap that fits. Making out like a bandit anywhere you can get away with it in private: that fits, too.

Oh, and much as closeted homosexuals in homophobic cultures tend to go after their own (J. Edgar Hoover springs to mind), so might such a covert satanist-fundamentalist group go after other satanists who aren't part of their organization.

Yeesh, there's probably a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" here.