Articles

What’s going on with David Silverman and The Satanic Temple?

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 […]

June 9, 2023

David Silverman @MrAtheistPants Thanks to my friend @LucienGreaves for a great tour for me and Kris @CShellska at @satanic_temple_ ! Great to see you again and thanks as always for your activism! Image Last edited 8:16 AM · Jun 5, 2023 from Everett, MA

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The Satanic Temple

Footnotes: “Why we left The Satanic Temple”

Many people have been harmed and otherwise mistreated by The Satanic Temple over the years, especially those who once considered themselves members. This is not just by the national organization in Salem, Mass., but by all of the local organizations set up to be part of the base for the pyramid structure that funnels power […]

June 8, 2023

Survivor bias plane diagram

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Community, Footnotes, Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Cevin Soling really hates public schools

Newly discovered passages from 2014’s “The Student Resistance Handbook” by Satanic Temple co-owner Cevin “Malcolm Jarry” Soling show that using Satanic student groups to disrupt education isn’t a bug or a side effect of them; it’s the whole point When Fox News discusses The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan clubs, they are using the issue […]

June 5, 2023

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The Satanic Temple

[MIRROR] Queer Armed Joy: Report Back From Vancouver’s ‘Big Gay Wedding’

Originally posted by Sabot Media and IGD News Dozens of local queers in Southwest Washington State celebrated the unofficial start of summer this year with a ‘Big Gay Wedding’, gathering from morning till afternoon on a warm holiday weekend — right outside of a Christian Nationalist hate church that preaches LGBTQ eradication. Directed and cheered […]

June 2, 2023

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Community, Guest Article, Queer Pride, Ritual

Sabot Media’s Molotov Now! Ep 6: Interview with Queer Satanic

A podcast about taking action Our friends at Sabot Media had one of us on to talk about cults and what to be looking for in jobs you work and groups you join, even on the left and even in supposedly anarchist spaces. Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in state and […]

May 12, 2023

Queer Satanic's satanic antifascism logo (white inverted pentacle over a three arrows with gay pride colors) and Sabot Media's Molotov Now! header (text and in silhouette, black cat and statue of liberty throwing a lite molotov cocktail) + "Episode 6: Interview with Queer Satanic"

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Cults, Lawsuits

What you have had is bad enough

“A person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn’t matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you’re both still fucking drowning!” You can be assured that someone out there has it worse. You can also be assured that what you have had is bad enough. Please take care of yourself the […]

May 6, 2023

Tumblr @enbygesserit you can't oppression olympics your way out of how your trauma affected you. "other people had it worse" bitch! I don't care! just from looking at you it's plain and obvious that you've had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn't matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you're both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat this especially applies to all the people in the tags saying it applies to everyone else but them. sorry

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Memes

“Protecting children from irreversible bodily changes”

@fandomsandfeminism:Only about 2% of high school athletes are awarded ANY sports scholarship to college. This idea that sports, especially lucrative and dangerous high school football, are some wonderful godsend that will propel underprivileged kids to a better life is by and far not true. I’m not saying we ban tackle football, but 1. It’s a […]

May 3, 2023

quasi-normalcy Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain. There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football. Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies: No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition. My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high. And if you had asked me, even back then, whether I would rather lose my reproductive capacity or suffer irreversible brain damage, I know that I would have chosen the former without a second's hesitation.

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“Wait, why is The Satanic Temple suing you?”

A detailed look at TST’s case United Federation of Churches, LLC v. Johnson et al Timeline In 2014, a small group of people founded the Satanic Temple of Seattle; Nathan Sullivan was one of those founders. Throughout 2016 and 2017, a young but nationally prominent member of the Seattle religious organization found themself sexually harassed […]

April 22, 2023

Three people stand beside each other, each wearing black masks with a pentagram and three arrows logo. The background behind them is psychedelic.

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Satanic Flame Ritual

A Short Guide to Private Devotional Magic for Non-Theists and Materialists [Printable Zine] Why bother? Internal focus is a powerful tool for working through problems and shedding feelings that may be holding you back, but as non-theists there is another aspect to the candle ritual. In some religions, prayer allows the faithful to soundboard inner […]

April 5, 2023

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Guest Article, Ritual

[MIRROR] Notes on a farce

Originally published at My Thoughts Born From Fireby Aleph Skoteinos Forgive the interruption between my inquiry on Revolutionary Demonology, but it seems there’s been a nuisance coming my way. Suffice it say that, it is quite incredible to see what lengths some people will go to in order to keep other people’s mouths shut. Last […]

March 28, 2023

Hi Aleph. Your article on Unione Satanisti Italiani is dishonest and leads to slander. Precisely for this reason we’re evaluating with our law firm to proceed with a lawsuit against you. We hope that in the future you will be more careful about making unfounded accusations. You should have read more about us before writing such slanders. We are open to discussion but we do not like those who try to cleverly reinterpret our contents with malice.

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Cults, Guest Article, Lawsuits