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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.

December 3, 2021

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

No one cares what you think a “real Satanist” is

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 […]

November 6, 2021

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Church of Satan, Memes, The Satanic Temple

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.

November 2, 2021

Gay couple kissing over the grave of Catherine Johnston with Doug Misicko in horned helmet as Lucien Greaves officiating in what was called a “pink mass”

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The Satanic Temple, What The Hell Is The Satanic Temple?

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 […]

July 17, 2021

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The Satanic Temple

You are more than your worst moments

You also are those moments, of course. “That’s not really me,” “that’s not who I am,” or “deep down, I’m actually…” this nonsense. There is no, “But I’ve changed.” There is no “born again.” You are what you do repeatedly, and you are everything you’ve ever done; you always will be. All of the harm […]

March 21, 2021

A black and white baphomet with wings and text "You are more than your worst moments"

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Memes

Hating religion is not a substitute for a personality

This is a non-theistic space, not an anti-theist space. We don’t talk about negatively about “religion” because the problems we have with particular religions are not located in their beliefs in the supernatural or their rituals. We oppose harmful superstitions, like gender essentialism and white supremacy, beliefs that people believe in and act on to […]

August 24, 2020

bedeviled dogs carrying a banner that reads "hating religion is not a substitute for a personality

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