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[Steve_Seattle]

I assume these are “small ‘s’” Satanists who adopt the name for shock value, and probably don’t engage in actual satanic ritualism, but are a social-activism group with a veneer of paganism.

[refermech]

Just trying to provoke a violent response. They should be ignored and ridiculed.

[Prince of Space]

My youngest daughter, raised Catholic, says she’s a Wiccan now. I imagine she’ll be going to this since she lives 20 miles away. She just named her new puppy Hades, FFS. I told her he’ll be a big hit at the dog park, lol.

[PROCON]

Will Nancy Pelosi fly in to deliver the opening prayers to Beelzebub?

[Caipirabob]

It’s sh*t hotel, now with even more sh*t.

[BansheeBill]

What time does the Travis Scott concert begin?

[avenir]

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.

I bet they used the same PR blurb way back at Babel!

[xp38]

"to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits,"

Well I doubt Satan is for any of that stuff but it's a good cover.

[seowulf]

[fidelis]

The Satanic Temple is distinct from "the Church of Satan" founded by Anton Lavey who are out-and-out Satan worshippers. Satanic Temple are the ones that have been trying to set up those horrible statues of "Baphomet" all over the place. Their objective in this (and a lot of other things) seems to be to try to downplay (what they think) is the over-representation of Christianity in the culture and that rational people can do good things outside of religion. In other words, they're secular humanists using shock value to make their point. More info:

The Untold Truth of the Satanic Temple (Grunge)

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[Impala64ssa]

They should invite the Scottsdale school bd Pres Jann-Michael Greenburg as guest of “honor”.

[spirited irish]

"to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits,"

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.