Posted on 09/24/2020 10:14:26 AM PDT by TigerClaws
I am a 40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls. I often walk with my children to get ice cream and spend weekends hiking through a national park. I am not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times.
Like so many other women in the United States, when I learned of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, my first reaction was not grief but fear. I fear that American citizens are inching closer to living in a theocracy or dictatorship and that the checks meant to prevent this from happening are close to eroding beyond repair.
When Justice Ginsburg died, I knew immediately that action was needed on a scale we have not seen before. Our democracy has become so fragile that the loss of one of the last guardians of common sense and decency in government less than two months before a pivotal election has put our civil and reproductive rights in danger like never before. And, so, I have turned to Satanism.
Members of the Satanic Temple do not believe in the supernatural or superstition. In the same way that some Unitarians and some Jews do not believe in God, Satanic Temple members do not worship Satan and most are atheists. They are not affiliated in any way with the Church of Satan. Instead, the Satanic Temple uses the devil as a symbol of rebellion.
Just like other faiths, the Satanic Temple has a code that their members believe in deeply and use to guide their lives. These Seven Fundamental Tenets include that “one should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason,” that “the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions,” and that “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
Reading through the Seven Tenets, I was struck by how closely they aligned with the unwritten code I had used to try to guide my own life for several years. I realized, happily, that these were my people and that I had been a Satanist for several years without even knowing it. When Justice Ginsburg’s death suddenly made combating the threats to reproductive rights and a government free from religious interference more urgent, I knew it was time to join them and support their conceptual and legal battles.
Even before Ginsburg’s death, the Supreme Court was unwilling to provide adequate protection for a woman’s right to choose and to control her body. The court was unwilling to keep church and state separate. Now, without her voice of reason on the court ― let alone her vote ― Roe v. Wade is in imminent danger of being overturned not based on legal arguments or scientific reasoning, but because of religious objections to what is a safe and necessary procedure for the women who seek it out after discussion with their physician. Ginsburg’s replacement is all but certain to be vehemently anti-choice, with one of the top contenders belonging to a sect that actually used the term “handmaid” to refer to some women until the popularity of the TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” gave the term negative connotations.
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
This idiot should know that’s about Mohammadans (and produced and starring a Scientologist cultist !) and not Christians (but designed to explicit smear them). But anyone who would willingly join a Satanic cult...
“Satan” in Hebrew connotes “adversary” and “remote from the truth”. Not a good look.
“the Supreme Court was unwilling to provide adequate protection for a woman’s right to choose and to control her body”
...not in the US Constitution. Enjoy your future of cats and boxed wine.
“The court was unwilling to keep church and state separate.”
...not in the US Constitution. Enjoy your future of cats and boxed wine.
I am guessing a psychological crazy woman, divorced because of her craziness, and will drive her children to hate her.
Anyone with a garage full of soccer balls has already submitted to the dark side IMO.
“...control her body....”
It’s ALL about abortion with these freaks. It will tell her that you can control your body all you want by not spreading your legs.
Once you are pregnant, it is no longer just YOUR body. Get it, freak?
To Satanist like her, abortion = contraception.
Probably a horrible sammich maker.
Now if it were so she could play guitar more awesomer.......
Boy is she in for a disappointment. From what I’ve seen that “church” is every bit as much full of political back-biting and judgmental purists (?) as any other with the added bonus of all the hyperventilating being over principles that any Christian is going to mostly find hilarious.
> Satanic Temple members do not worship Satan <
I’m guessing someone lied to her.
The devil has power to assume pleasing shapes (Shakespeare). It appears that the hunter of souls is on the prowl, and this one was — shall we say — low hanging fruit. In fact, the social isolation imposed on us is probably what is softening up souls. There is a reason we are meant to be in communion with each other.
Some of them really do come with warning labels...
Gee. Somebody who deeply identified with Ruth Bader Ginzburg, a woman who supported all abortion including gruesome third trimester killings, celebrated homosexuality and all its perverted permutations and willingly distorted the US Constitution to ruin and deconstruct the American nation is a self admitted Satanist. Somehow am not surprised.
Please join me in praying for this person who has now willingly become a demon because she wants to have the government tell her murdering babies is not a crime let alone a grave sin, but just fine. Sad. She says she is a satanist, but does she have any idea what that means?
You know it is that startling simple. I am amazed how the other side twists and turns its self into pretzels to avoid this fundamental truth that you wrote — control of your body means controlling who enters it. The child has its own body that he or she is being denied control.
So, Trump wants a committed Christian on the court, and this idiot joins a satanic cult. She tells us she walks with the children to get ice cream, and she wants us to think she is perfectly normal.
No, we will not be in a theocracy. And it will be a good thing if the new court finds you do not have the right to kill your baby.
Mentally ill and ignorant, as well as evil.
Instead of a representative government that actively seeks to reduce or eliminate governance by mobs, these people are deliberately working to change it to a ‘mobocracy’.
Fools. They have no idea how quickly they themselves will be crushed by the thing they so desperately seek.
Peach
>>I fear that American citizens are inching closer to living in a theocracy or dictatorship
Evil beyotch from Hell would prefer to sit at the right hand of Satan along side Walter Cronkite.
This isn’t a dictatorship. You wouldn’t be able to hear criticism of Donald Trump if it was.
>>“The Satanic Temple has nothing to do with Satan.”
It is an atheist supremacist group that is devoutly anti-Christian. They are Leftist bigots and they are a hate group.
Wish I could see how this works out for you. Might want to always be wearing summer clothing.
You betcha.
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