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[–] 41 points 3 months ago

As they should. Get on board.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    There is an awesome documentary movie on the satanic temple from 2019

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Satan%3F

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I've heard the parties are super fun.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Seems like this satanic temple has very much in common with secular liberal values from europe.

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  • [+] -16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Or try no religion and no church at all. Just live life and enjoy your time without magical crutches.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    The Satanic Temple isn't a religion in the traditional sense. They also do a lot of activism. Here are their tenets:

    I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

    II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

    III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

    IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

    V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

    VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

    VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

    They're different than the Church of Satan, associated with LaVey Satanism which is a bit more what people tend to think of, though that's also still technically atheist

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago

    I've known about them for a long time. Since before Hail Satan? came out. I support their mission but know many people who begin treating it as others do traditional religion and I think we'd be better off fighting our battles through secular humanist groups.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ironic username aside, it would seem you're making wild assumptions about something without knowing the most basic information about it. You couldn't have done the bare minimum research before going off?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Username not ironic. I've gone through many flavors of both theistic and atheistic Satanism and see people end up becoming rigid with belief. Even TST keeps infighting and causing schisms within itself. It's all so fucking stupid and we should seek to better the self through the self and stop using these pseudo-spiritual crutches. We should build secular humanist groups to get ourselves out of this Christofascist quagmire and not play by their rules and definitions.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I don't expect that of people anywhere, it's sad but true. I never truly lose hope but have realised it's not healthy to expect better. It sucks that fully uninformed reactions are the basic thing but people keep proving that's the case.

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  • [+] -34 points 3 months ago (21 children)

    Try a Unitarian universalist Church. No Satan. No God.

    Basics...

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic sect of Satanism. They don't believe in an actual Satan, he's more like a symbol for self-betterment

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  • [+] -64 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    I know what satanism is.

    It's not self betterment. It's just selfish.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    It's not exactly popular to talk about it here in this community, but the satanic temple REALLY sucks as an organization too.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Trash people should be crucified. or worse

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's not any more corrupt than the christian organizations. Would I love it to be a perfect blameless foil? Sure. But sparing that, it tries to be kind and accepting, faithful to a creed Christians have allowed themselves to forget en masse.

    If you are of that flock, you need to study more. Look into the role of Satan—how it evolves between the testaments; who wrote the gospels, when, and under what political pressures. It's convenient to believe what you're told—but I recommend the hard liberty before the easy yoke. One should not indulge in such decided opinions without an understanding.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's a great option, as they're extremely welcoming to everyone. This is probably the wrong community for it, though!

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is so bad for optics if actually true. I don't care one way or another but this will absolutely affect the narrative.

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  • [+] -20 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Why would I avoid a cult to join another?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's not a cult, look into it

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've looked into it. Indeed, they make sense in the context of the USA (I'm french). It's weird that in such a presumably powerful country, church and state are not separated, and that people have to rely on creating an organization perceived as religious to defend their rights under the cover of freedom of religion. So, the satanic temple is some kind of loophole in quite a fucked-up system. I wish them good luck.

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  • [+] -20 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Aren't they really into rape?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Where would you get an idiot notion like that? Maybe from church? Or right wing talking heads?

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From some video from an ex-supporter. Now I can't find it, I just see right-wing propaganda.

    The video was about an ex-member, who got sexually assaulted by an important member of the group.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    not nearly at the level of the average american

    edit: addressing the angry comments early with this - 1/3 of eligible voters like a rapist. 1/3 of eligible voters were okay enough with a rapist to not vote. that's a fact. deal with it.

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