For more information, see The.Satanic.Wiki The other day, someone tagged us on Twitter in response to a tabloid headline. Here is that tabloid, and the completion of that joke. [Tweet] Which still needs a little bit of explaining. What could drinking urine or “Cevin Soling” have to do with starting a religion? How does this […]

The Texas abortion ban is a fucking atrocity, and while there are certainly already legal challenges underway, there are several regional abortion funds that can use the support much more urgently. Several of them can be found here: “So what do we do now?” A better question is, “What you are prepared to do?” Because […]

“Dehumanization” is a word that gets tossed around a lot without people stopping to think about what it means. The problem isn’t actually that murderous white men get thought of as whole people who are more than their worst moments, even unthinkably awful moments like murdering their own children as part of a paranoid fantasy. […]

When you’re a member of The Satanic Temple trying to explain what it is to someone, your job is pretty simple. You quote any number of media-guide-approved explainer articles written by a safe, TST booster. Members of The Satanic Temple do not believe in God or the devil. Its beliefs are articulated in “the seven […]

For a long time, it’s been known that The Satanic Temple’s co-owner Lucien Greaves once went on an antisemitic rant about how the Nazis ruined the word antisemitism for everyone and that it was “OK to hate Jews” so long as you were hating observant Jews. He was on a 24-hour radio show celebrating and […]

You don’t have to pick one, and neither do they. This probably deserves its own post in detail, but the idea that “no gods, no masters” means people can’t continue to experience religion seems as ridiculous as claiming it means no one could seek out an expert to apprentice themselves to (or a dominatrix to […]

This is going to seem like a stretch, but try to stick with it. At first glance, the idea seems ridiculous that it’s any kind of revolutionary act to make sure you’re using your bathroom breaks at a leisurely pace, posting memes from the Internet or watching till the end of a video. However, as […]

Religious Beliefs of The Satanic Temple The Satanic Temple believes that God is supernatural and thus outside of the sphere of the physical. God’s perfection means that he cannot interact with the imperfect corporeal realm. Because God cannot intervene in the material world, He created Satan to preside over the universe as His proxy. Satan […]

Tumblr @dilfgirlI’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to […]

TST members have lots of opinions on Palestine, but the Temple’s co-owner Cevin Soling is a Zionist, and his is the opinion that matters As Israel continues aggressively expanding and deepening its apartheid state, destroying Palestinian homes, killing children, and letting lynch mobs run through the streets in the name of self-defense, you may wonder […]