The gall, the audacity that I was born with. I don’t doubt your sincere support of the Fundamental Tenets, but the point of using Satan as an icon is specifically to rile up Christians and it exists to shield people from Christian Fundamentalism (and religious-based persecution and abuse more broadly, but most of that is Christian-flavored where the Satanic Temple is active)
Oh, good grief. No, I’m not interested in “riling up Christians”, either! In fact, I would prefer to get along with Christians. Almost 100% of my religious practice I’ve been alone or with other Satanists and zero Christians.
Then stop appropriating the iconography of their central villain. (Christians don’t know that Baphomet and The Devil are different) It seems like you’re ignorant of the history of the Temple, which is only 14 years old, and it very literally was founded to mock Christian extremist activists like Rick Scott. That’s the whole bit.
What gives you the right to tell Satanists that they aren’t sincere? And no, TST does not “attack religion”. We defend Satanism.
The gall, the audacity that I was born with. I don’t doubt your sincere support of the Fundamental Tenets, but the point of using Satan as an icon is specifically to rile up Christians and it exists to shield people from Christian Fundamentalism (and religious-based persecution and abuse more broadly, but most of that is Christian-flavored where the Satanic Temple is active)
Oh, good grief. No, I’m not interested in “riling up Christians”, either! In fact, I would prefer to get along with Christians. Almost 100% of my religious practice I’ve been alone or with other Satanists and zero Christians.
Then stop appropriating the iconography of their central villain. (Christians don’t know that Baphomet and The Devil are different) It seems like you’re ignorant of the history of the Temple, which is only 14 years old, and it very literally was founded to mock Christian extremist activists like Rick Scott. That’s the whole bit.