June 21, 2024
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- [SNAKE OIL] Secular Student Alliance supports ASS clubs (“The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club Partners with Secular Student Alliance om Little Rock, Arkansas”)
- [WE LIVE IN HELL] Louisiana 10 Commandments school bill signed into law (“Republican governor says he welcomes lawsuits over new school requirements; ACLU announces suit”)
- [PERMANENT SHITTENING] TST New Jersey leaves (“Another local congregation has apparently gone independent”)
- [PERMANENT SHITTENING] Newly ex-Satanic Temple figure criticizes it as a cult (“Doug Misicko confirms that all purged ministers are permabanned from TST at all levels”)
- [PERMANENT SHITTENING] “Defrocked” minister shares his story (“Most of TST internal departments gone or on skeleton crew, per unknown defrocked minister on TST Subreddit”)
- [PERMANENT SHITTENING] TheSatanicTemple.TV a.k.a. Cinephobia, LLC, is a private for-profit corporation (“Former TST DFW and Satanists of Color Coalition chair Soona clarifies about TST TV being separate from all the other stuff”)
Secular Student Alliance supports ASS clubs
The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club Partners with Secular Student Alliance om Little Rock, Arkansas
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Louisiana 10 Commandments school bill signed into law
Republican governor says he welcomes lawsuits over new school requirements; ACLU announces suit
TST New Jersey leaves
Another local congregation has apparently gone independent
On June 19, u/thors_mjoliner announced on Reddit that The Satanic Temple’s New Jersey group had voted to separate from the national org.
[TSTNJ] Had voted to leave the label behind and move forward. The announcement email was a censored picture of the baphomet getting teabagged.
Shortly after, a Google Doc of the text (and “teabagging” photo) also began to circulate more widely.
Avé,
I hope this announcement finds you well. I am very pleased and excited to let y’all know, The Satanic Temple of New Jersey has voted to shed ourselves of the national label entirely. Every congregation who has created a bank account will be able to tell you, they are “X” doing business as “Z”. We have decided it’s in our community’s best interest to go with our legal name of NJ Satanists from here on out. Our fight against theocracy and arbitrary authority will continue, just without The Satanic Temple’s overreaching jurisdiction. I’m bouncing off the walls in anticipation for what’s to come for our religion as a whole!Hail Satan!
-Goliath Belasphemer
Former co-head of TSTNJ
Co-head NJ SatanistsP.S. I promised myself I wouldn’t cry writing this. Here’s my formal resignation from “ministry.” They say a picture is worth 1,000 words.
This is very similar to what TST Nevada did as part of their announcement they were separating from the national org. As we said then:
A decade-plus on, and TST no longer can honestly call itself an insurgent force, however much mainstream media finds that narrative comfortable.
Newly ex-Satanic Temple figure criticizes it as a cult
Doug Misicko confirms that all purged ministers are permabanned from TST at all levels
When people break from The Satanic Temple, some of them break in a forlorn way, wishing TST and its missions all the best. But others suddenly have a new clarity they feel compelled to share with everyone else. Tim Leviathan of Dallas-Fort Worth is in the latter camp, as he explained in a Facebook post.
If you are a former Minister in TST, or are a former member of a congregation, or anyone that has considered considered themselves a member, and has become disillusioned with the organization, I would strongly encourage you to remove yourself from the membership roster by following this link
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/membership-cancellation
It has been made very clear that we are not welcome in the organization. I will no longer be a statistic in their favor.
The Satanic Temple has lost its way, and has become a cult.
Note, though, that to actually revoke your membership you ought to use this link, and you may even need to send an email to socialmedia@thesatanictemple.com specifying “Please remove my name and data from ALL your records”
“Defrocked” minister shares his story
Most of TST internal departments gone or on skeleton crew, per unknown defrocked minister on TST Subreddit
I’m not going to rehash what’s gone down, since there’ve already been multiple posts about it, so here’s what I can tell you from my side of things.
I was a member of the Satanic Ministry from April 5, 2023 until I was defrocked on June 5, 2024. I was a member of Recognition and Onboarding Committee from the beginning of July 2023 until I was defrocked, and was the sole representative for the Canada East region starting in August of that year after Minister Neacail, for whom I took over, stepped down to focus on other TST matters. I was part of local leadership in Toronto from late 2019 until I was suspended on June 9 of this year. I was also informed today that, per an edict from Lucien Greaves, all ministers who have been defrocked have also lost their congregant status, and are prevented from holding any titles related to participation in TST, which is, effectively, excommunication. (edit: It seems, after rereading edict, that I was the inspiration for it)
My termination letter, the evidence against me, and my response to EM are all included in this post, as are my leadership suspension, congregation expulsion, and Lucien’s excommunication edict.
Regarding the Discord server from which the evidence was taken, contrary to what EM would have you believe, there are few bad actors there, and I have a right to free association, and they have a right to privately voice their disagreement with EM, and no one there is working to damage TST. On the contrary, the main topic of discussion is about how TST is damaging itself. The only ones who are taking down TST are EM and their Hell Squad.
Regarding Toronto, I’m disappointed that the congregation heads and the former Fellowship Council lead would tank years of friendship due their belief in the infallibility of Lucien’s words, their ire over my continued membership in the Discord, and their belief that I would ever work to damage TST or our congregation, an irony being that this month’s Toronto open meeting topic is ‘The Freedom to Offend’.
Thankfully, this is not LDS and I have a robust group of friends and acquaintances outside of TST, so I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing outside of TST spaces and time.
As the title states, I’m open to questions, and will do my best to answer them, though, despite no longer being a member of the Ministry or congregations, I am ethically, and, to a lesser extent, legally, prevented from discussing certain things.
I can tell you this:
OrdCo has one person, recently installed, who has zero experience in OrdCo, and, from what I’ve been told, was not particularly involved in his own congregation beforehand.
The ROC now has four people left, with a massive coverage gap because of this (there are eleven regions).
The Administrative Committee has three or four people left, one of them being Jen Saxena of TST Toronto.
No idea about the Legislative Committee.
Concerns has just a few people left, one of them being Tommy Lavin.
Temple Liaison Committee is gone.
SurCo, whoever is left, has been quiet.
Satanists of Color Coalition is gone.
Satanic Representation Committee is gone.
Helping Hands is gone.
Religious Services is gone.
No idea about Grey Faction.
Sober Faction still exists, but barely.
I don’t know the state of the After School Satan Club.
SatanOps, the information security branch, was locked out of their super admin access by Rachel Chambliss at the direction of Lucien. Most of them are gone, including the most senior members, and the few who are left have still not been given back their access, so information security currently entirely rests with Rachel, who is not an information security specialist.
This is what EM’s actions have done. The damage is severe. I don’t think that much thought was given to this, and it will take a lot of time for the organization to recover.
TheSatanicTemple.TV a.k.a. Cinephobia, LLC, is a private for-profit corporation
Former TST DFW and Satanists of Color Coalition chair Soona clarifies about TST TV being separate from all the other stuff
Previously, we covered Citlali Soona leaving TST in a loud way. This week, while quoting someone else unidentified, she went out of her way to call out the way Cinephobia, the for-profit corporation behind The Satanic Temple TV subscription streaming service, is set up.
“Something else people should be aware of, is that tst tv is NOT affiliated with tst. They simply pay to license the name. It’s for profit and not a dime of the subscriptions, tips and whatnot, go to tst. It goes to lucien and to pay randy and Liz. That is all. Carry on.
Signed- The person who was constantly having to explain to people that their tst tv subscription did not benefit services, because the folks wanted to support religious services and got duped”
my addition: TST TV has SoCC content behind a paywall and we didn’t see a single cent. They were also told multiple times that there shouldn’t be a paywall.
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