A cursory look at some of the Church of Satan founder’s politics and views We often criticize The Satanic Temple, and for obvious reasons. They have been suing us for more than three years, and are at present the largest, most prominent, and most popular Satanic organization in the world. When a news org wants […]

The Temple admits its members have more to fear from TST than they realize Longtime followers of The Satanic Temple’s legal history will know the Temple is, by design, a far greater threat to its own members than it has ever been interested in, or capable of, posing to the Christian Right. It’s still wild […]

Lawyers are expensive, but benefit shows are fun. “Hail Lucifer – The Light-Bringer” will be a rock show Saturday, Aug. 19, at Left Bank Books in Seattle to benefit the Queer Satanic Heretics. DETAILS BANDS Hurry Up Snufkin Dead Sonics Molotov Juicebox Other stuff We’re also working on having some local artists present, such as […]

Because The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases. We’ve said it before, and we will no doubt have many occasions to say it again in the future. This article goes through the judge’s opinion in some depth to show why that judge is not a “doddering old fool”, as TST’s owner claimed in […]

A collective ritual magic guide for non-theists & materialists [Zine] Unbaptism rituals can be healing especially for people who’d like to consciously and actively undo something done to them without their assent or that they were too young to really consent to. The good news is you can just do that! Sit down with each […]

Officially: Apellees’ Answering Brief in United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson et al (23-35060) Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [Brief][Supplemental Excerpts of Record] Full text below as embed and HTML TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION This case arises from a dispute between a religious organization and its former members regarding the religious […]

Because The Satanic Temple is an abusive religious organization owned by two thin-skinned men who use their organization’s collective wealth and resources to intimidate and punish critics. Jump to Okay. But why are they suing you specifically? Because one of the four co-defendants —David Johnson — criticized the two men — Doug Misicko and Cevin […]

Lawyers are expensive. Please continue to support our legal defense fund directly or via our offerings. If you’ve been meaning to grab a flag, patches, or stickers from us but just haven’t gotten around to it, mosey into Left Bank Books Collective, 92 Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98101, which has a lot of very cool stuff […]

OK, now that there’s exactly a week left, we should go ahead and announce that we’ll have our own table at Trans Pride Seattle 2023: Ten Year Anniversary! We’re partnering with Art of Kelly Dean Verity who is the veteran here in terms of setting up these sorts of things; Verity will be working live […]

Note: A previous version of this article lacked the updates between June 9 and June 28, 2023, but also treated too credulously and authoritatively The Satanic Temple Sober Faction’s description of Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko reduced role in the organization when combined with Dex Desjardin’s description of Misicko as being “semi-retired”. The recap and responses […]