Until they figure out that the Artemis cult is FAR more marketable.....
Posted on 11/02/2017 10:47:12 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
The Satanic Temple might be the religion for 2017.
On a quiet New England street, just steps from a yoga studio, a giant wicker sculpture of Baphomet — a demonic entity often associated with Satan — looked down on passersby.
The statue is perched upon a historic colonial-style house, filled with occult and diabolical-themed art. And that house is the national headquarters of The Satanic Temple, a national organization that’s equal parts performance art group, leftist activist organization, and anti-religion religious movement.
The house, which opened to the public in 2016, doubles as an art gallery. Each room is filled with unsettling, subversive art pieces that critique organized religion. One piece, by a local tattoo artist, depicts the victims of the Magdalene Laundries, nun-run institutions in Ireland where unmarried mothers and “fallen women” were confined in often brutal conditions. A small room off the gallery, filled with newspaper clippings and other historic items, is devoted to the “Gray Faction,” a branch of The Satanic Temple that focuses on covering and dispelling hoaxes like those that caused the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s. Back then, mass hysteria over imagined ritual Satanic abuse caused the closure of a number of child day care centers across the US despite the fact that no reports of abuse were ever substantiated.
Despite the occult trappings, The Satanic Temple’s headquarters function just like any other museum or public organization in Salem, where thousands flock each year to mark the town’s storied history of witch trials during the late 17th century. The Ouija boards on the walls and the goth attire of most of the visitors notwithstanding, what is, perhaps, most surprising about The Satanic Temple is its normalcy.
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(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Well, isn’t this interesting.
The people at Vox understand what is going on. Very surprising.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dan-gainor/2017/11/02/alt-left-insanity-resistance-satanic-no-were-not-kidding
review
Odd that those who extol Satan must otherwise believe in God, or the Satanic belief itself makes no sense.
I wouldn’t want to be them.
Until they figure out that the Artemis cult is FAR more marketable.....
This temple is truly evil.
The thing that bothers me the most is that people just shrug it off.
Odd that those who extol Satan must otherwise believe in God, or the Satanic belief itself makes no sense.
I wouldn’t want to be them.
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While all that is true, Satanists declare themselves atheists.
They are not really atheists. They, like Lucifer, place themselves on the throne of God, having morality superior to any other being.
So they see Satan as a role model, not necessarily a deity worthy of worship. Like Prometheus; the Enemy gave us the ability to rebel against God. Never mind that God Himself gave us that ability, in order for us to love Him of our own free will.
I guess religion is alive and well. Believing in Satan is believing in the opposite of Jesus. Satan was evil and cunning. Jesus was good and trusting.
***the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s.***
But Geraldo Rivera and Phil Donahue took it and ran with it.
Do they still kiss the Devil’s anus when they meet?
My shop does printing and embroidery. We are also quite openly practicing Christians.
A guy comes in and wants his jacket embroidered. He emails my wife his art, which is a photo of an ornate cross. The image comes through inverted, but my wife thinks nothing of it. Many images are inverted when sent to us.
When sending the guy a proof, she has the cross in the traditional orientation. The guy pitches a fit and insists that she embroider the cross upside down.
My wife is genuinely clueless as to why he wants this. I show her on the web that satanist and atheists now use an upside down cross as a symbol. I also show her one of the more historical interpretations of the upside down cross.
So the guy comes in, the conversation went like this:
Wife - “I really like how this came out.”
Weird Dude - “Really?”
“I especially like the symbolism.”
“You do?”
“It’s very humble of you.”
“What?”
“Putting the cross of St. Peter on your jacket. It is the traditional symbol of humbling yourself before God. There is one on the back of the Pope’s chair.”
“What?”
“It is always so nice to do business with fellow Christians!”
What this illustrates is that, despite its current position as the scapegoat for everything wrong with the world, chrstianity remains the default religious setting for the "western" world. Therefore, if one is going to rebel, one rebels against it and it alone, and even goes so far as to befriend and ally with even more reactionary religions just so long as they may be defined as traditional "victims" of chrstianity. Just think a moment: would any sane person literally subscribe to "satanism," scientific atheism, fundamentalist islam, nature worship, eastern religions, and the shamanisms of "indigenous pipples" simultaneously? All of these positions are mutually exclusive! It isn't a rational belief system; its an irrational act of childish rebellion.
Historically, in any area or time where two "gxds" are acknowledged, both will have their worshipers. Because chrstianity gives Satan a will independent of G-d (which he doesn't have) and has him engaging in primeval battle with G-d (which he's never done and can't do), it has created its own dark shadow. Satanism is at its heart simply chrstianity inverted, and would have no power or appeal whatsoever if the chrstian worldview were not still ascendant.
In the Middle Ages the "satanists" hung the crucifix upside down, recited the Latin mass backwards, and "desecrated the host." In the modern world they go out of their way to tweak chrstian sensibilities by the above-described logically irreconcilable positions. The "satanist" hostility does not, as naive chrstians believe, "prove" that chrstianity is the true religion. "Satanism" is part and parcel of chrstianity itself.
Whether there are actually some people today who actually believe in and worship "lucifer" and believe they are defeating the "demiurge" by bringing about a "luciferian" new world order I don't know. I only know that the only "lucifer" there ever was is a planet. But that doesn't mean that there aren't idiots out there who believe it. But then, this is merely another example of an inverted chrstianity. Without a chrstianity teaching such an entity existed, there would be no one to worship it.
PS: The strangest part of this rebellion is that the ultimate "victims of chrstianity" in the liberal mind are "Blacks and Hispanics," who are chrstians themselves, and whose versions of chrstianity must be exempted from critique and celebrated as though they were the aboriginal dreamtime.
> Some satanists are the real deal; they practice a religion of “satan” worship (”satan” as defined by chrstianity, of course).
Those satanists should know better. They stopped worshiping a man of flesh and blood. Yet they worship satan instead. Really?
Satanism violates the Torah Law prohibition of creating a new religion. Satan has no important theological role in the Torah. HaShem rules heaven, hell and the whole universe with infinite power. HaShem is the Lord of Light. HaShem is the Lord of Darkness. HaShem creates good and evil. HaShem gives life and death.
I agree entirely. "I kill and I heal, and from My Hand there is no deliverer."
However, "satanism" isn't an alternative to chrstianity; it's the obverse side of it. Satanists are still chrstians; they just root for "the other side."
Always fun when the toy Satanists meet the real ones. They’re both out to mock Christianity, so there’s not quite as much difference as the former think that there is.
> However, “satanism” isn’t an alternative to chrstianity; it’s the obverse side of it. Satanists are still chrstians; they just root for “the other side.”
I see what you mean.
1) Rooting for the other side precludes someone from the essence of being a Christian--which means "little Christ" or follower of Christ.
2) Satanists don't understand or believe anything like real Christian doctrines of Satan or anything else. They are typically either atheists mocking religion or people that convinced themselves they can do magic, and like to shock others by claiming to get power from Satan. But the "Satan" that these people claim allegiance to is nothing like that described in the Christian scripture. Indeed, these magical Satanists think they understand Satan far better than Christians....and they will go on and on about how "misunderstood" they are.
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