[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)

[mdmathis6]

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!