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[–] 70 points 4 days ago (8 children)

-looks up ST beliefs-

I dunno, this all seems pretty reasonable to me…

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  • [–] 48 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    They were founded in 2012 and exist primarily to challenge US laws that are overtly religious. If a governor passes a law saying public schools must teach Bible study, atheists can't legally object under US law. You can only object if a law violates your religion, not your lack of religion. So what if you made atheism a religion? That's the Satanic Temple.

    It's Satanic themed on purpose because "court rules schools must provide children Satanic literature" makes for a funny headline when in reality it's just a paragraph about critical thinking.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah. That Satan guy just suffers from bad marketing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    Seriously!

    Have you read their collection of folk tales and hallucinations (or "Bible")?

    He comes off as the good guy more often than not!

    That Jehovah dude, on the other hand, comes off as a petty tyrant prone to hissy fits and overreactions of catastrophic (and often genocidal) proportions to anyone who doesn't RESPECT HIS AUTHORITAH or treat his favorite people as precious snowflakes that have first dibs on everything and everyone.

    (Capitalized italics to be read in the voice of Eric Cartman from South Park America)

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Turns out that all Satan had to do was to let Christians go apeshit on their own to win souls

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    As a former Christian, I don't know how Christianity is even a thing. You sit in church and listen to pastors or priests read passages from a book that are Jesus saying "Love everyone, but don't worship me" and then look around and realize everyone is doing the opposite of what he is saying.

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  • [–] 40 points 4 days ago

    Hell yeah. Give 'em hell, Satanic Temple.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Shefali Aurora, ACLU of Iowa staff attorney, said Monday that “state officials have made it clear that they denied The Satanic Temple permission to hold events in the Capitol rotunda because they disagreed with their religious viewpoint. It is a foundational principle that the government cannot restrict speech in this way, favor one religion over another, or discriminate against religious groups because they don’t agree with them …

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago*

    thats fine, the politicians can either allow the display or they can lose in court for denying it and pay a huge fine to fund the temple. Winning a giant monetary award in court is an even bigger win than the display in the capital building.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago

    lol they always do interesting stuff

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Thats some sweet sweet trolling. Praise Satan everyone. And teach your kids empathy, anti bigotry, and critical thinking like the satanic temple does.

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