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

Criticism of Satanism and Satanists tends to fall into one of only two types. The first and most common generally is just right-wing reactionary paranoia; it’s typical antisemitic tropes dressed up in horns, a tail, and handed a pitchfork to be able to be shouted openly with only people in-the-know understanding the implicit Judenhass. But […]

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 […]

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 […]