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The Devil is in the Details: Fact-Checking The Satanic Temple’s 2021 “Year-In-Review”

Let’s take a look at how the Temple describes itself to its own supporters versus what actually happened in 2021.

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Playing “a shell game”: Arkansas claims it needs federal court’s help to get to deepest circle of Satanic org’s finances

ACLU and state agree it’s time to get on with long-delayed 10 Commandments case that TST pushed itself into.

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The Devil Went Down to the South Pacific

New book confirms The Satanic Temple’s co-founder Cevin Soling was for years among the “crackpots” trying to be a cargo cult messiah on a small Pacific island

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Devil’s Advocate: TST sides with Church Militant

The Satanic Temple chooses to support anti-gay, ultra-conservative Catholic group in court battle

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Footnotes to Newsweek’s “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit”

Last week, reporter Julia Duin filed her story that involved interviewing us about being sued by The Satanic Temple in federal court and some of the other complaints from previous members about TST’s pattern of behavior.

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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 3: United Federation of Churches LLC

More than a year passes between TST’s first public event in Florida and for-profit company United Federation of Churches LLC incorporating in Massachusetts in February 2014, so figuring out when “The Satanic Temple” came to exist as it’s understood today is a bit tricky, partially overlapping with the Spectacle Films-project era but evidently preceding even that.

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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 2: Spectacle Films Inc

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 […]

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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 1: Salem Art Gallery

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 […]

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Why You Haven’t Left The Satanic Temple

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 […]