• niftyOP
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    38 hours ago

    I hate anything that invokes mythology as a default, but I get that they’re doing it to butthurt religious fundamentalists, so I’ve come around to the whole Satan church thing

    • Jo Miran
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      97 hours ago

      You are confusing the Church of Satan (actual Satanists and mythology) with the Satanic Temple.

      With unfortunate regularity - and much to our chagrin - The Satanic Temple is confused with an earlier organization, the Church of Satan, founded by Anton Szandor LaVey in the 1960s.

      The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic organization…

      …the group views Satan neither as a supernatural being, nor a symbol of evil, but instead relies on the literary Satan as a symbol representing “the eternal rebel” against arbitrary authority and social norms, or as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity.

      • niftyOP
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        27 hours ago

        Ah thanks, guess you’re right