Posted on 11/16/2021 3:13:49 PM PST by hsmomx3
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Satanic Temple's Satancon 2022 is coming to Scottsdale in February.
Satancon is the organization's first religious convention, according to a news release.
The event is set for Feb. 11-13, at the Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale, with a second venue to be announced soon. Click here for tickets at $95 apiece.
The mission of The Satanic Temple is, "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits," according to its website.
SatanCon is set to feature talks and presentations about the various campaigns The Satanic Temple is currently championing. These include efforts to protect the reproductive rights of its members, fighting against psychiatric abuse, protecting children from abuse in schools, promoting addiction recovery and building support for the temple's after-school club.
The convention will also feature vendors, entertainment and a keynote presentation by Satanic Temple co-founder, Lucien Greaves.
The Satanic Temple sued the city of Scottsdale in 2018 for refusing to allow it to deliver an invocation prior to its city council meetings. The city had not rejected requests to deliver an invocation from any other organization.
In May, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the city's favor, saying that Scottsdale did not engage in unlawful discrimination.
"In addition to creating a community for our members, SatanCon serves as an expression of our good will toward the city of Scottsdale, despite the perplexing and unfortunate ruling against us which defied precedent and common sense," Greaves said in the news release. "In the course of litigation, Scottsdale officials desperately made clear that they are, in fact, accepting and inclusive regarding Satanists. We heard you, Scottsdale, and we accepted that as an invitation to turn Scottsdale into the Happy Satanic Fun Capital of the World."
Greaves added that The Satanic Temple is dedicating SatanCon to the Scottsdale City Council.
"Far from being disgruntled and put off, we're going to bring Satan to Scottsdale," Greaves said. "We're bringing the party to you, Scottsdale, and it's going to be an event to remember."
The Scottsdale City Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It sort of reminds me when one read the old Soviet constitution. Lots of good sounding words but the actual execution and reality was very different. When the lie is that dramatic you know who the father is.
Good one!
Church lady.
What they do is rehab old hotels from the 50’s. The Valley Ho being the most famous of these old resorts. The rooms have been updated but are still the smaller style from the era. This one we’ve seen mixed to poor reviews on over the years for stay-cations, which is what keeps them afloat during the summer. For the locals, once a hotel like this gets a reputation they become anathema. They recently outed Scottsdale CRT loving school board President is just one example of crap we do not stand for. The scumifornia invasion of our beautiful little town has gone far enough. I expect this hotel will be out of business within the next two years.
Why do I not find this surprising?
Those don’t seem like strange bedfellows to me.
Funny, I have lived in Phoenix for a long time and have never heard of the hotel this is being held at.
They would do better in their “rationalist religious de-emphasis advocacy” by making a name for themselves in their practice of good works without the use of images that Christians know to be blasphemous. Such in your face practices defeats their purpose. The fact is despite their claims of wanting to de-emphasize religious influences in civic life, their use of Satanic Baphomet imagery shows us who their father really is...despite their gaslighting claims to the contrary!
I agree. Even the cynical use of Satanic images for shock value furthers the cause of Satan. The Father of Lies will take all the publicity he can get, especially if if has the effect of lessening his shock value and making him out to be just a quaint caricature. Putting him in this light lowers the guard of those who need to be always wary of his nefarious designs.
They should invite the Scottsdale school bd Pres Jann-Michael Greenburg as guest of “honor”.
Agreed!
The symbol of the Satanic Temple is Baphomet, the goat-headed demon, symbol of androgyny, or as it is commonly known today--transgenderism. It's within this context that the above paragraph must be deciphered. First off, benevolence and empathy among all people speaks to open mindedness. Open mindedness means tolerance toward open borders, man-boy-love, and all other aspects of utopian thinking. For them, this open-mindedness means common sense and noble pursuits.
Tyrannical authority is code for the moral authority and Biblical presuppositions that undergird our nation. Thus, "God created them male and female" is tyrannical. "Thou shall not covet" and "thou shall not kill (murder)" is tyrannical, especially when 'choice" (abortion for any reason) is common sense open-mindedness.
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