TST’s failure in The Satanic Temple Inc. vs Rokita highlights how ill-equipped and deeply unserious the Temple’s owners are about confronting the Christian right, especially in a post-Dobbs world In late September 2022, TST filed two nearly identical federal lawsuits in Idaho and Indiana, once again in an ostensible attempt to establish a religious exemption […]

In early October, The Atlantic‘s staff writer Helen Lewis finally published a story about the fallout from Doug Misicko a.k.a. “Lucien Greaves” taking a chummy photo with his friend the “anti-woke” sex pest and disgraced atheist “firebrand” David Silverman, most notable now for his anti-trans views. Unfortunately, Lewis is basically your bog-standard TERF Island journalist, […]

“Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic” is a funny name — and a distraction from what’s actually going on with TST’s New Mexico Telehealth Clinic In the most recent episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, he made a mention of a particular publicity stunt by a certain satanic for-profit business-cum-church. In so […]

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 […]