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People who chose to live in gloomily coloured surroundings because their 'religion' imposes it upon them make a different case. Satanism, for example, entails, in a much simplified sense, worshipping Satan, which in a way brings people to venerate the black colour as it symbolises the satanic forces. Although one could argue that it is red, not black that has become to mean the 'demonic colour', people who accept living in blackness, wearing it, demonstrating it, etc. seem to be happy and fulfilled (no matter how long it is going to last).