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And best of all, they’re not even satanists. They just call themselves an edgy name

They should all be worshipped privately

Pretty sure the bible specifically mentions that too.

These people are not actual religious worshippers though. This is activism. There’s a difference between the two groups

Edit: here’s some additional information, should you be interested - https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq

That's why the ~~Church of Satan~~ Satanic Temple is trying this, they know it will cause outrage and people will be far more likely to ban all religion from schools than allow satanism.

I'm Christian, but have given them money.

Separating church and state makes better government AND better churches.

For a moment I thought you were going to say "doing God's work"

For those out there who only read headlines, the short of it is that many Satanists are rarely actually worshipers of Satan like a deity, many of them are just proactive atheists who have adopted the most abhorrent religious identity possible to Christians to provide necessary pushback against attempts at making the USA a Christian nation.

The same people who scream relentlessly about supporting the constitution for issues like gun control, seem just fine with abandoning the 1st amendment's Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clauses. So Satanists are forcing Christians to declare their choices out loud. If you're going to say the law should allow religion to be part of government, then you have to be fine with all religions being involved, OR you have to admit that you don't respect the USA's founding principles and documents. You can't have it both ways.

There is not so much Satanism being promoted here as much as a spotlight on hypocrisy and I'm all in for it.

Correction, they want equal religious rights for everyone

correction: They only want in when other religions also want it.

Basically, they're the US military if the US military was like "hey wouldn't it be funny if we trolled them instead of bombing three hospitals?"

Sorry to ask, but could someone summarize the video? Cannot watch it rn, and will probably forget later.

That said, all organizations face this kind of “what’s the orgs vision or character” challenge. Thats why good leadership is important. Sometimes it’s best to cut loses and reorganize, and also market how you’re different now.

Supporting eugenics in any form is unconscionable, but people make mistakes and can grow from them. There are examples of KKK members who became activists in other direction, and we shouldn’t lock people in to their past bad decisions. I encourage the idea of “reformed racists”.

As asinine as I think the idea of “Satan” is in general, I see value in contenders and challengers to established religious authorities. As a rule, we should remove religion from policy making.

8 and a half tall demon statue

My high school math and science teachers eyes are twitching....

Prosperity Gospel is so close to LaVeyan Satanism that it barely makes a difference.

Not like that. It's HAIL SATAN

As a Satanist, I absolutely think schools should welcome your bountiful deity with open arms, so long as they feel it's important to discuss religion in school. Preferably, we should leave that kind of personal discussion at home. That being said, I think people could really benefit from learning about "The seven I would really rather you didn'ts."

Ra'men.

We absolutely need the satanists they are the ones that are doing things. What are the other religions doing?

One of the Temple’s first actions was to perform a “pink mass” in which gay couples made out over the grave of the mother of Fred Phelps, founder of the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, and declared her a lesbian.

This is delicious.