Our friends at Dixie Prole had us on to talk about how modern Satanism has been rife with fascism and reaction throughout its history, but how it didn’t and doesn’t have to be that way.

How The Satanic Temple controls the media — and your mind (Part 2: After School Satan) Last time, we looked in detail at how a press release from The Satanic Temple takes advantage first of weak local journalists and their editors by offering a compelling conflict narrative. This makes a story easy to cover “both sides” of […]

TST takes advantage of structural biases of journalists and anti-partisanship in social media to get a reaction without having to do anything more

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 […]