The Satanic Temple

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I noticed there wasn't a TST Lemmy community. The Satanic Temple is a modern satanic religion that aims to promote human rights and compassion. Check out their about page on their official website at https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us. Note that this community is not an official affiliation. TST is also separate and not affiliated with the Church of Satan, who have a slightly different viewpoint of what satanism truly is. Dunno what to post in here, but maybe some will search for this and take part. Hello!

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Angry About Your Kid’s After-School Satan Club? Blame Clarence Thomas. (newrepublic.com)

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The after school satan club is making inroads in the US thanks to the supreme court and in particular Clarence Thomas. There are now 4 states (CA, OH, CT, and PA with KS as a proposal) with active clubs where kids can learn unfiltered science and other subjects I'm sure.

Hopefully the new year will bring many more thanks to the SC and we can have better educated kids.

Maybe the motto should be join the After School Satan club and play games and learn things the schools are too afraid to teach. Also kudos to whoever dreamed up the name.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

After school satan is an initiative from The Satanic Temple, or TST, they are different from the Church of Satan, like Catholic and Protestant are different. TST is basically the politically active one and they do not follow the satanic bible but rather have the seven tenets

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the Satanic Bible is kinda fucked up, totally different spirit than the 7 Tenets. It encourages selfishness, manipulation, grifting. Feels more like a pick up artist type self help book than anything else. Anton LeVey, the leader of the Church of Satan wrote it, along with the Satanic Witch- the ladies version of the Satanic Bible and they are both trash.

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us

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 Church of Satan expresses vehement opposition to the campaigns and activities of The Satanic Temple, asserting themselves as the only “true” arbiters of Satanism, while The Satanic Temple dismisses the Church of Satan as irrelevant and inactive.

The 7 Tenets are lovely:

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.

[–] blackstampede 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're also a fundamentally atheist organization, so I'm not sure the analogy holds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

CoS is also atheistic. See FAQ: https://www.churchofsatan.com/faq-fundamental-beliefs/

[–] blackstampede 3 points 7 months ago

Ah ok. My bad.