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TlalocW

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6. These "Satanists" are kind of like

Reply to riqster (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2014, 09:57 AM

Jul 2014

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster but more politically active...

From http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/28/3464769/satanists-hobby-lobby-abortion/

The Satanic Temple, sometimes referred to as “the nicest Satanic cult in the world,” falls somewhere between satire, performance art, and activism. The group says its central mission is to “encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will.” It has a set of seven tenets that closely track with humanism. Typically, wherever issues of church and state are overlapping, the Satanic Temple isn’t far behind.

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So the Satanists are on the side of Good? Really? No, seriously, really? [View all] riqster Jul 2014 OP

Atheists are the new Satanists. We eat babies, they never did. nt. Warren Stupidity Jul 2014 #1

Sounds more like Satanists are the new Humanists. riqster Jul 2014 #3

They always were. Warren Stupidity Jul 2014 #8

Interesting connections there. Worth some reading. riqster Jul 2014 #11

Seriously...and the KKK is also recruiting African Americans who are against immigration. Lint Head Jul 2014 #2

Hopefully, without success. riqster Jul 2014 #4

We are possessed by demons? hrmjustin Jul 2014 #5

Hopefully not me or thee. riqster Jul 2014 #7

Lol. thanks. hrmjustin Jul 2014 #10

These "Satanists" are kind of like TlalocW Jul 2014 #6

May they be touched by His Noodly Appendage. riqster Jul 2014 #22

They're hyper-individualists. Real *$$holes cprise Jul 2014 #26

You might want to look into the Satanic Temple gcomeau Jul 2014 #9

Gotta admit, I like them too. riqster Jul 2014 #14

sometimes popular preconceptions about religions are wrong eShirl Jul 2014 #12

My wife is Wiccan, and she doesn't fit the stereotypes. riqster Jul 2014 #17

Is the SIL a straight polytheist or a henotheist? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #20

He's big on Odin. That's most of what I know. riqster Jul 2014 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author okasha Jul 2014 #24

Satanists who aren't simply poser nutjobs are more like Cathar heretics. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #13

I'm finding out how many varieties of Satanism there are out there. riqster Jul 2014 #18

Yeah, sort of like atheists, they come in all sorts of flavours ;) nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #19

Religious Satanists are similar to 1st to 3rd Century Christian Gnostics in a way... Humanist_Activist Jul 2014 #23

There are a lot of commonalities there okasha Jul 2014 #25

The Satanists are admirably successful trolls in public life muriel_volestrangler Jul 2014 #15

They are the Establishment Clause's BFF these days. riqster Jul 2014 #16