Sean Patrick Palmer, of Oklahoma, arrested after explosive device found last week near porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

An Oklahoma man was arrested on Thursday morning in last week’s bombing attempt of a Satanic Temple in Massachusetts.

Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Oklahoma, was arrested on charges of “using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce”, the United States’ attorney office for the district of Massachusetts said in a statement.

The Satanic Temple does not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural, but rather uses Satan as a symbol of free will, humanism and anti-authoritarianism. It regularly angers rightwingers and Christians.

  • @taanegl
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    527 months ago

    Ah yes, the Christian is peace loving by default… in that they would blow things in to pieces if the mood is right.

    • @LemmyFeed
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      267 months ago

      There’s no hate like Christian love.

        • A Phlaming Phoenix
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          27 months ago

          One day you may wake up in an unreasonable cult! And you may ask yourself, “How did I get here?!”

        • @FordBeeblebrox
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          57 months ago

          Money, political influence, and child grooming. If we made them pay taxes and hire licensed social workers to deal with kids and the infirm. If we could skip one generation of identity politic religion, I like to think we’d stop preying on each other in the name of our invisible friend