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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 5: The Satanic Temple (Inc.)

The Satanic Temple has described itself in a variety of ways over the years, some of them contradictory. However, since 2019, it would be fair to say that the Temple most commonly has described itself as a “famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization“, and this is how TST wants people to think of them. What they’re […]

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This invoice reveals the inner workings of The Satanic Temple’s finances

Two-thirds of donation money for Satanic veterans’ memorial in Belle Plaine remains largely unaccounted for, federal court documents reveal “If you gave $1,000 to The Satanic Temple, how would you know where it ended up?” As we’ve talked about before, that is a much more complicated question than most people realize, but we recently got […]

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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 4: Reason Alliance Ltd.

For more information, see The.Satanic.Wiki “If you gave $1,000 to The Satanic Temple, how would you know where it ended up?” That, as much as anything, is the sort of question that the Temple’s owners and supporters have no way of answering satisfactorily even as they continue to have the audacity to ask donors for six […]

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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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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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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 […]