TST sucks ass though. Their leadership is all abusive right wing hierarchical assholes and all they actually do is profit off of an image that they fight for abortion rights and such, when in reality they’ve never won a court case and have been time and time again completely incompetent in their litigations. Theres a huge community of grassroots actually leftist satanists and after being deprogrammed from TST they all try to come out about the abuses they suffered at the hands of TST leadership only to be sued into silence. There’s a ton of info about this, but a good place to start for those curious is the group Queer Satanic.
A link to a local St. Louis, Missouri paper with an excellent report validating your abortion claims. They interview one of the pregnant women who was told they would help her, but basically it ended with a lot of publicity for them and nothing for her.
News story #3 is actually kind of crazy to me. The only possible explanation for someone filling that lawsuit is if they don’t believe in their own tenets. The suit has no grounds and is meant to suppress criticism.
It pretty clearly is a direct contradiction with tenet 4 (respecting freedoms of others, especially the freedom to offend)
I might expect hypocrisy like this from other religious groups, but for TST, the tenets are a fundamental part of their movement.
TST sucks ass though. Their leadership is all abusive right wing hierarchical assholes and all they actually do is profit off of an image that they fight for abortion rights and such, when in reality they’ve never won a court case and have been time and time again completely incompetent in their litigations. Theres a huge community of grassroots actually leftist satanists and after being deprogrammed from TST they all try to come out about the abuses they suffered at the hands of TST leadership only to be sued into silence. There’s a ton of info about this, but a good place to start for those curious is the group Queer Satanic.
A link to a local St. Louis, Missouri paper with an excellent report validating your abortion claims. They interview one of the pregnant women who was told they would help her, but basically it ended with a lot of publicity for them and nothing for her.
The Satanic Temple Sought to Upend Missouri Abortion Law. Their Plans Went to Hell
It is QUITE A BIT more nuanced than that…
This is their co-founder, and spokesperson? wtf
https://www.videosprout.com/video?id=98aafea9-df67-416d-998d-46348a626005
edit: and 1, 2 and 3
News story #3 is actually kind of crazy to me. The only possible explanation for someone filling that lawsuit is if they don’t believe in their own tenets. The suit has no grounds and is meant to suppress criticism.
It pretty clearly is a direct contradiction with tenet 4 (respecting freedoms of others, especially the freedom to offend) I might expect hypocrisy like this from other religious groups, but for TST, the tenets are a fundamental part of their movement.