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 Ginsburgs 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 ones body is inviolable, subject to ones 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 Ginsburgs 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 Ginsburgs death, the Supreme Court was unwilling to provide adequate protection for a womans 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. Ginsburgs 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 Handmaids Tale gave the term negative connotations.
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she seethed with anger, knowing we women would no longer be able to murder unborn babies if roe vs wade gets overturned, so she turned to Satanism
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.
Really figures.
Too bad she has kids. Wonder how many she killed before she let a couple live? She talks about our democracy without noticing that Roe v. Wade was as anti-democratic as you can get. Voters used to decide; now only 9 unelected judges have total control.
I’ll read it later.
Some people shouldn’t vote.
I pray she sees the light one day and repents.
Makes as much sense as any liberal when they stop screaming long enough to attempt to justify their beliefs.
Sounds like she made the call a long time ago and just didn't realize it.
I read the excerpt you posted.
I.don’t care how she cloaks it whether it is “reason” or Lucifer. She is denying God.
Matter of fact, it appears to me that she worships herself.
Sweetheart, you have already surrendered to Satan’s grasp
....yeah, and it pushed me to down a bottle of champagne
What a screwed up individual.
The scary part of this whole article is that she is a mother. SHE HAS CHILDREN.
Notice there is no mention of a husband.
I really hope this woman lives in California.
Interestingly, all of the push for socialized medicine, which the author probably supports, is just such a removal of control over your body she fears. When the left says "right to chose", they really refer for a few cubic inches of a woman's body during her fertile years. Everything else in the human body falls into the left's motto of "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state". If some government official determines that you just get painkillers rather than surgery (per Obama's plan), then you have no appeal and no option for treatment outside the system.
Well, I would guess that RBG was not SUPPOSED to die. Had she retired in say, 2015, Barark Obama had every opportunity then to replace her on the court, she would have had five years to live out her last days in New Zealand, and there would not have been a ripple on the pond.
Bad timing there, RBG.
To officially join - her support for abortion qualified her for honorary membership long ago...
Just remember, God loves us all - so much that He wouldn’t dream of forcing someone who clearly doesn’t want it to spend Eternity in His presence.
Nowadays this constitutes deep, intellectual, introspective philosophy.
I read most of this article without knowing if it were satire or not.
It’s not.
The best thing I can say about the ‘Satanic Temple’ is that at least it’s truth in advertising.
This is what happens when you let precedent law take the place of legislation, you end up with a bunch of single-issue voters giving up an accountable and boring government (that lets people go about their day) in favor of throwing all of their efforts into trying to read other peoples minds on a single issue (thus all the rewards for virtue signalers). Its all bull. People can lie, they can change their minds, the one thing they cannot do individually is to change statute law. It is interesting that all of the collectivists are so focused on the individual in an unhealthy stalky kind of way, and that is all down to an over-reliance on precedent law.
We need to beat back legislating from the bench and get back to coming together to pass common sense legislation through legislators. The current system is exhausting, it causes divisiveness, and it doesnt serve the interests of the public.
Nice 🙄.
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