Articles

Anton LaVey was a mediocre douchebag

 Or: “How the Church of Satan founder was a piece of shit in lots of boring ways, too” The original title for this was “Satanic rule of earth #9: Do not harm little children*” but then it expanded on us as a project. We’re going to talk about three things in order, with the purpose […]

April 19, 2025

picture of anton lavey holding a snake with text overlay " 'But have you considered: what if a child consents?' —LaVey, probably"

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Church of Satan

[Capital Area Satanists] Pink Full Moon

(Full Moon Ritual April 10, 2025) “Let us walk on… We are but a little way in the forest, yet.” Pink Full Moon Ritual10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. PacificSaturday, April 12, 2025 Full ritual text Piper: Greetings and welcome to the latest in our cycle of lunar rituals.  Suggested materials are: Though if you lack any […]

April 10, 2025

A picture of a pink moon with the quote text superimposed on top of it: “Let us walk on…We are but a little way in the forest, yet." 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific Saturday, April 12, 2025 Pink Full Moon Ritual

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Guest Article, Ritual

[Ave Satanas Podcast] S2E7: Queer As Satanic Folk

In today’s episode, Jack sits down with David from Queer Satanic to talk about SLAPP suits, and how much satanism is “too much” Satanism. We also find the oversized belt buckle in the bible belt. Thank you to Jack and Free Society Satanists of the Global Order of Satan for having me (David) on to […]

April 5, 2025

Promo tile from Ave Satanas podcast listing its info

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Anarcho-Satanism, Guest Article, Lawsuits

Satanists do not turn the other cheek

Some context for what happened today inside the Kansas State capitol There will be people making lots of claims about what happened inside the Kansas State Capitol today and what led to The Devil Of Kansas (Michael Stewart) getting tackled by state police, arrested, and charged with a crime, along with two other members of […]

March 28, 2025

"Satanists do not turn the other cheek" as Michael Stewart edited to have glowing red eyes defends himself from a Christian Nationalist domestic terrorist

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Lawyers Are Expensive, Ritual

[Capital Area Satanists] Dark Moon

(Dark Moon Ritual March 29, 2025) Join us Saturday night as we continue the uncoiling of the Year of the Snake with this month’s Dark Moon Ritual 10 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Pacific, Friday, March 29, 2025 Full ritual text Piper:  Greetings and welcome to the latest in our cycle of lunar rituals. We’re […]

March 27, 2025

Overlay text: "Dark Moon Ritual, 10 p.m. Eastern time, 7 p.m. Pacific time, Saturday, march 29, 2025." Image: black and white image of a dark, black moon in the sky over the shadows of trees.

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Guest Article, Ritual

Bloomberg: “Satanic Temple’s Idaho Abortion Ban Appeal Looks Likely to Fail”

Title comes from this Bloomberg writeup by Mary Anne Pazanowski that probably is paywalled, but as you can tell, their reporter’s read was pretty negative: A panel of Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday appeared unlikely to give the Satanic Temple another shot at suing Idaho over measures that bar it from providing abortion care to […]

March 26, 2025

Doug "Lucien Greaves" Misicko upside down with open mouth saying "we suck lol" over the top part of a chart showing The Satanic Temple's legal failures as of March 2025

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

UPDATE: The Satanic Temple appeals failed SLAPP against Newsweek

Frivolous libel lawsuit latest in a series for religious org that claims to support “free speech” Update April 7, 2025: True to form, The Satanic Temple has given notice it will appeal this loss and attempt to resume the litigation against the reporter as an individual again. See below. A federal district court judge in […]

March 26, 2025

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

[The Satanic Grotto] Black Mass at Kansas state capitol

“What did the Catholic Church ever do to you? Mirror from “The Devil of Kansas” Facebook page post by the Satanic Grotto‘s leader Michael Stewart: 6 days until I’m arrested for being a Satanist and practicing my first amendment rights. Please share. (Trigger warning, SA) So today I decided I would do something special, I […]

March 22, 2025

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Guest Article

Anton LaVey plagiarized* “Might Is Right” — here’s the proof

Anton LaVey , the founder of the Church of Satan, directly lifted passages from the 19th century proto-fascist book Might Is Right by “Ragnar Redbeard” (Arthur Desmond) and did so extensively and without credit to produce a substantial part of LaVey’s most famous and popular work The Satanic Bible, published in 1969. [skip to comparison][skip […]

March 21, 2025

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Church of Satan

Man to plead guilty to pipe-bombing Satanic Temple HQ

According to past filings, the Oklahoman believed he was sent by “Elohim” to “fight crybaby Satan” Sean Patrick Palmer of Perkins, Okla., is facing up two decades in federal prison after agreeing with prosecutors to plead guilty to an April 2024 hate-crime attack of The Satanic Temple’s Salem HQ with an improvised explosive. Federal investigators […]

March 19, 2025

a man in a mask throws a lit improvised explosive at the outside of the Satanic Temple's HQ in Salem, April 8, 2024

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