Posted on 05/01/2023 9:14:40 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Satanists applauded Friday as leaders of SatanCon 2023 opened events by shredding "symbols of oppression," including a "Thin Blue Line" flag and a copy of the Bible.
"We stand here today in defiance of their siege and destroy their symbols of oppression," one leader, a woman, announced to the crowd before shredding pages from the Bible, according to a report.
The other leader, a man, tore a "Thin Blue Line" flag in two and threw it to the floor.
"We must build true community outside of the virtual," he said.
"Rebelling comes in many forms to each and their own within their own capabilities and their own situation. For some of us, merely existing one more day is victory, but for those of us who can, we must stand up for those who cannot."
SatanCon 2023 was hailed as three days of the "largest satanic gathering in history" hosted by the Satanic Temple at Boston's Marriott Copley Place, the report noted.
This year's event commemorates the temple's 10th anniversary, and it was dedicated to Boston's Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu because the temple had not been allowed to deliver a satanic invocation at a 2021 city council meeting, according to the report.
Since its founding, the temple has reported unabated growth.
There are more than 700,000 members, according to the group's website.
The goal of the temple, which identifies as a nontheistic religious organization, seeks to "encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits."
SatanCon 2023 featured myriad speakers, including many preaching what appeared to be left-wing identity politics, the report noted.
Several lectures on "self-pleasure" and the transgender identity were offered by liberal professors.
The event called "Hellbillies: Visible Satanism in Rural America" was hosted by a transgender man who became pregnant "after hooking up with someone on Grindr," according to the report.
Catholics pushed back against the event, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston called for "intense prayer."
"We ask Catholics not to organize or encourage others to go to the event to protest. It will only make it more prominent and give the organizers the attention they seek," the archdiocese said.
"Rather than protesting in person, we hope to storm the Heavens with prayer from our shrines, monasteries, and parishes."
Very sick people actively exchanging the truth for a lie.
They’re just a bunch of misguided fools.
ANY group planning on ANY event at ANY Marriott should immediately CANCEL
It is good to see that a book composed 3500 to 1900 years ago still drives the heathen mad today.
I heard they shredded a Quran too. Pass it along!
Who guided them?
Was it not SCOTUS in the 60’s when they forbade school prayer and other forms of religious activities but not forbade Satan worship?
Until they do that to a koran and, let’s say, a Saudi flag, I declare that they’re not even real hypocrites.
I would like to see one make a planet. :>D
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