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[-] sxan@midwest.social 189 points 1 month ago

Gotta love the Satanists. They're fighting the good fight.

[-] DaDragon@kbin.social 85 points 1 month ago

And best of all, they’re not even satanists. They just call themselves an edgy name

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

Christians don't understand that. Apparently the satanic panic never ended.

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Satanic panic is their whole life. I really pity them. They live in constant fear of not only their god who supposedly "loves" them, but another deity who also doesn't exist.

[-] disgrunty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I live with such a person and you are correct. It really is their whole life. Said person put their hands on me and tried to shout the demons out of me because I disagreed with them.

Funnily enough, no demons were forthcoming.

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Yep! "What do you call someome who believes in a literal Satan?" .. "Christian."

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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

I'm not for any religious discrimination.

They should all be worshipped privately and have no governmental supporting.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 107 points 1 month ago

They should all be worshipped privately

Pretty sure the bible specifically mentions that too.

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 month ago

Hey, don't you go bringing the Bible into this discussion about religion!

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Republicans hate when you do that because they're completely unarmed!

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These people are not actual religious worshippers though. This is activism. There’s a difference between the two groups

Edit: here’s some additional information, should you be interested - https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's why the ~~Church of Satan~~ Satanic Temple is trying this, they know it will cause outrage and people will be far more likely to ban all religion from schools than allow satanism.

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

the Temple [...] named a telehealth abortion clinic after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s mom.

This is a beautifully poetic insult and I love it.

[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

That’s my religious organization! Proud to be a regular donor. Highly recommend everyone joins and donates, they’re truly doing great work

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

I'm Christian, but have given them money.

Separating church and state makes better government AND better churches.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 1 month ago

Please consider donating to the Satanic Temple if you can. They're doing important work fighting Christian Nationalism.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

For those out there who only read headlines, the short of it is that many Satanists are rarely actually worshipers of Satan like a deity, many of them are just proactive atheists who have adopted the most abhorrent religious identity possible to Christians to provide necessary pushback against attempts at making the USA a Christian nation.

The same people who scream relentlessly about supporting the constitution for issues like gun control, seem just fine with abandoning the 1st amendment's Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clauses. So Satanists are forcing Christians to declare their choices out loud. If you're going to say the law should allow religion to be part of government, then you have to be fine with all religions being involved, OR you have to admit that you don't respect the USA's founding principles and documents. You can't have it both ways.

There is not so much Satanism being promoted here as much as a spotlight on hypocrisy and I'm all in for it.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Are my donations to TST tax deductable?

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

The only thing better than The Church of Satan is having them essentially state-funded :)

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

We don't worship Satan because mythological supernatural creatures simply don't exist.

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[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Satanist don't actually want in, they want religion out

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Correction, they want equal religious rights for everyone

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[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago

I'm a Satanist and affiliated with neither CoS or TST. The leadership of TST are not good people. One of them tried to make himself the god of a cargo cult and the other has a history of making racist, antisemitic and ablist statements. He also owned a website about eugenics until 2018.

That video I linked to is long but it is very well sourced and I hope might give you a bit more insight into who you're supporting if you choose to join or donate to them. There's a lot of comments under the video from ex-TST members, including Ministers and Chapter Heads who've been badly burnt by TST.

[-] Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf 11 points 1 month ago

That's interesting! How many child rapists have they protected?

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

Are you suggesting that someones potential for child rape is the only metric we should look at when determining someones decency?

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No. They are saying if group A, who has a long history of widespread pedophilia protection is going to get in, group B, who's biggest issues are these, isn't worth proactively trying to stop, especially when they both align on the principal at hand.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry to ask, but could someone summarize the video? Cannot watch it rn, and will probably forget later.

That said, all organizations face this kind of “what’s the orgs vision or character” challenge. Thats why good leadership is important. Sometimes it’s best to cut loses and reorganize, and also market how you’re different now.

Supporting eugenics in any form is unconscionable, but people make mistakes and can grow from them. There are examples of KKK members who became activists in other direction, and we shouldn’t lock people in to their past bad decisions. I encourage the idea of “reformed racists”.

As asinine as I think the idea of “Satan” is in general, I see value in contenders and challengers to established religious authorities. As a rule, we should remove religion from policy making.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

As someone who recently completed work on an 8 and a half tall demon statue in his living room, I approve.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

8 and a half tall demon statue

My high school math and science teachers eyes are twitching....

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago

The missing unit is kilometers

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[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Bet cuckservatives would rather allow satanism into their schools if.. it was suggested that Islam too should be included.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Prosperity Gospel is so close to LaVeyan Satanism that it barely makes a difference.

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[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Good. Hail Satan and teach kids about all religions or none.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

FUCK YEAH!!! PRAISE SATAN!!!!

Fair is fair right? Or let me guess, not like that?

[-] suchwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Not like that. It's HAIL SATAN

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"'Freedom' of religion!"
"No wait, not like that!!!"

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Pavidus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

As a Satanist, I absolutely think schools should welcome your bountiful deity with open arms, so long as they feel it's important to discuss religion in school. Preferably, we should leave that kind of personal discussion at home. That being said, I think people could really benefit from learning about "The seven I would really rather you didn'ts."

Ra'men.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Don't really need the Satanists. Just tell conservatives that anything they want to mandate that is Christian can also/ will be done for Muslims. Notice how the war on Chirstmas always heats up around the time Ramadan coincides with it?

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

We absolutely need the satanists they are the ones that are doing things. What are the other religions doing?

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[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That Baphomet statue is totally awesome!

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


When conservative lawmakers in Florida and Texas won the fight to allow religious chaplains in public schools, they swung open the door to ministers from other faiths — including the Satanic Temple.

It offered the Hellions Academy as an alternative to Christian studies during school hours and named a telehealth abortion clinic after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s mom.

The proposals, which vary slightly, would have chaplains of various denominations serve in similar capacities as school counselors, in some cases with on-campus offices or salaries paid for by the districts.

A federal court sided with the Temple in a legal challenge last year, and there are currently seven clubs nationwide, where children make arts and crafts, learn about animals and do science experiments.

One of the Temple’s first actions was to perform a “pink mass” in which gay couples made out over the grave of the mother of Fred Phelps, founder of the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, and declared her a lesbian.

The Temple has protested corporal punishment of children and sued states to argue that abortion restrictions violate their religious rights.“It is a poignant way of pushing the idea of what these governments really care about,” said Jay Wexler, a Boston University law professor who studies church-and-state issues.


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[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago

One of the Temple’s first actions was to perform a “pink mass” in which gay couples made out over the grave of the mother of Fred Phelps, founder of the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, and declared her a lesbian.

This is delicious.

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