For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response.
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V
Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets
DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN?
No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq
She’s 13. Does anyone know if she’s allowed to become a member? The website isn’t clear on that.
Laveyan Satanism is a step better than gothic satanism (that is, enemy cultists in Hollywood movies, and what churches imagine they’re fighting against).
That’s true, Lavey is meant to be like an antidote to Christian guilt, however I’ve met some real arseholes with giant egos who were super into it.
Laveyan Satanism hasn’t aged well, but it seems to have come out at the same time the Necronomicon was published in paperback (ghostwritten, I think) and we were seeing all the allegedly factual books like Michele Remembers (featuring SRA) and The Satan Seller in which Mike Warnke confesses to be a part of the cabal of the Satan industrial complex (and admits to participation in some pretty serious violent crime, if the book was assumed to be not fiction).
These days, my take on Satanism is to look at the things that the churches have attributed to Satanism (Rock-and-Roll; TTRPGs, particularly Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy fiction like Harry Potter, but once including Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, LGBT advocacy, marital aids, sexual health, video games and so on.)¹ Contrast Jesus’ résumé (same sources) that suggest the Peacekeeper nuclear tipped ICBM is godly, as are the two Bush-led wars in Iraq, the presidency of Donald J. Trump and the bench appointment of Brett Kavanaugh. Comparing the two, I think Jesus is the god of established hierarchies, and Satan is the god of the people. I guess it makes sense, since Satan is something of a revolutionary.
¹ Among the fun contributions by Satan (according to the Church) are tandem bicycles (which allowed common folk to travel about and see other cultures and get cosmopolitan ideas) and trashy romance novels, which encouraged women to read and were accused of the same things TTRPGs and video games would be accused of later, particularly confusing vulnerable minds about what is real and what is fantasy.