The outrage these assholes are feeling is what the rest of us feel every time we see them trying to force their dogma into every facet of society.
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Every city that allows religion in a public school needs a ASS club
Me and my wife are both members of TST and we LOVE the work they do. The Tenets they promote are loving, self-respecting, and do justice towards an ideal world of Individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and critical thinking - i.e. everything that Christianity and modern conservatism in general are eager to suppress. We regularly donate to them, and we constantly purchase stuff through their store to help support them.
Same, also a member of TST and a practicing romantic Satanist. It's brought a lot of strength, clarity, and confidence to my life.
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The uproar is the point.
The Satanic Temple makes it clear its members do not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural.
But somehow conservative Christians believe that there are huge swaths of people who agree that their religion is 100% correct but worship the weak bad guy character.
(Which is not to mention that there are actually multiple bad guys who got combined, Satan and Lucifer and The Snake were originally different people)
This is a long standing joke - what do you call someone who believes in Satan?
A Christian.
God is omniscient and thus knew exactly what Lucifer would do. Angels don't have free will. Lucifer did exactly what God intended. God wanted Man to have free will. Free will requires the choice between good and evil. Man is the "bad guy" as well as the "good guy".
If god is omniscient they would know exactly what everyone is going to choose, nullifying free will entirely
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Reading the outrage comments always tickles me lol. Welcome to the point, bitches!
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Satan accepts everyone
Not his fault that God is picky
Satan doesn't whisper "Believe in me". He shouts "Believe in yourself".
Satan is rad as hell.
God is the dickhead that puts a dangerous tree in the garden despite knowing exactly what's going to happen. God is the asshole that wipes out everyone (even the animals) except one drunkard and his family because God apparently fucked up again. God is the one who creates a place of infinite punishment for finite crimes.
God is the real villain of the Bible.
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I’m cool with banning satan shit if we ban all other religious shit in politics and law. Fuck your imaginary friends.
The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization that uses Satan metaphorically, mostly to troll Christians.
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
As you can see from this uproar, it works quite well too.
That is the exact goal of The Satanic Temple. They would be incredibly happy to have their own symbols removed, as it would mean all religious symbols would be removed from government institutions. They are trying to scare Christians into voting against their own legislation, basically.
The first amendment in the constitution makes it so the government has to give equal rights to all religions, so the Christians can't remove the Satanic symbols without also voting to remove their own.
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As someone planning to move to this area soon I want my kiddo involved!
Be careful you don't encourage it, or else they won't want to. :P
People are cats.
It would be sad how badly these idiots fail to see the irony when it’s spelled out for them if it wasn’t so funny.
They can't spell, and even if they can they can't read and don't listen.
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ASS Club.
Nice.
Conservatives always want to have a free "marketplace of ideas" until it's something they fear.
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Of course Tennessee Christians are outraged. The after School Satan Club is most likely way more Christian than they are so there's stiff competition.
Sad that something like this is even needed but the US is full of bigoted hypocrites that want to turn the country into a religious state.
Sad that something like this is even needed but the ~~US~~ world is full of bigoted hypocrites that want to turn the ~~country~~ world into a religious ~~state~~ wasteland.
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The kids are alright 😃
good, the more noise they make the more this will spread
Actively missing the point......... "In a meeting with more than 40 pastors and other religious leaders, the district board chair, Althea E Greene, said: “Satan has no room in this district.”"
If it wasn't registered, "After School Satan Club" would be a great name for a punk band.
Watching the Church of Satan get exasperated when they're tagged about this shit on Twitter never ceases to amuse me
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They can't without getting rid of all other extra curricular activities & I love that for them.
Don't underestimate the evangelicals, they will cut off their nose to store their face and will cancel all the after school programs over this.
Don’t underestimate the evangelicals, they will ignore the laws and act like martyrs when punished for it. Then they will run for office as defenders of the constitution and church, get elected, push even more evangelical agenda on everyone, be exposed as homosexuals, retire and live comfortably ever after.
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Low IQ Christians never learn. They must be old dogs.
People always fall for the obvious troll.
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