Posted on 01/29/2016 5:06:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Should the First Amendment freedom of religion be a mandate for freedom from religion?
That is what a group that calls themselves "The Satanic Temple" is saying, and they are bringing that message to Phoenix City Hall.
"It's Satanism, not devil worship," Lucien Greaves, a spokesperson for the International Satanic Temple, said.
His group says the bible story of Satan being cast from heaven is a metaphor for standing up against a tyrannical government.
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Honest to Satan?? Is this real??
It’s getting harder and harder to care what happens to a wolrd which welcomes Satan.
Satanists do not actually worship Satan, they are antagonizing atheists. So to whom do they intend to pray?(yes I know, Satan doesn’t care, etc)
Nobody would force me to stay there while they did it.
“International Satanic Temple...”
If I recall, the IST formed when dissatisfied members left the First Church of Lucifer over the curled/straight goat horn controversy.
Freegards
His group says the bible story of Satan being cast from heaven is a metaphor for standing up against a tyrannical government.
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So why weren’t they up at Burns???
We have a world that is growing darker because of the ‘absence of light’....slowly but surely.
Sadly...our world grows darker because of the absence of light.
It’s groups like this that make me happy that I don’t believe in their nonsense.
There is abundant evidence for God in the universe, but none whatsoever for Satan until he is abstracted from the human mind.
I believe that the “serpent” in Genesis is God Himself, in a testing mode. Throughout Tanak, likewise.
ONE God, now and forever. Amen.
The Bible clearly states that Lucifer is real. He is a fallen angel, the father of lies and happy to hear that someone doesn’t think he’s real which makes his job that much easier.
God had a perfect relationship with Adam and Eve; it makes no sense for Him to want to destroy His own perfect creations.
Our ONLY hope is Jesus. http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/
But it was okay with God to let another party try it, eh?
You’re welcome to your interpretation.
I think you’re wasting your time there.
Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan was an atheist organization.
So the no god god people are claiming theirs is a religion now? Organized antiChristian bigotry more like it.
Please contact the Mayor to voice your opposition to this: https://www.phoenix.gov/mayor/contact-mayor-stanton
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