Secular Satanism: Difference between revisions

**[[File:Neonazi ball.png]] [[Nazism|Neo-Nazism]] (Accused)<ref>[https://medium.com/@queersatanic/why-you-havent-left-the-satanic-temple-4ad5c79a15e8 Why You Haven’t Left The Satanic Temple?] on [https://medium.com/ Medium] by [https://queersatanic.com/ Queer Satanic]</ref><ref>[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/9/17669894/satanic-temple-alt-right-marc-randazza-lawyer-lucien-greaves The Satanic Temple is divided over its leader’s decision to hire Alex Jones’s lawyer] on Vox</ref><ref>Clip: [https://www.videosprout.com/video?id=98aafea9-df67-416d-998d-46348a626005 Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple) Anti-Semitic Rant] on [https://archive.org/details/MightIsRightSpecial Might Is Right Special] (2002)</ref><ref>[https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2018/08/16/22146155/satanic-portland-splits-with-satanic-temple-over-alt-right-affiliation Satanic Portland Splits With Satanic Temple Over Alt-Right Affiliation]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHxu_fMXHNI&t=673s Racism section of the video "Is The Satanic Temple Really An Arbiter for Justice?"] by [https://www.youtube.com/@iilluminaughtii iilluminaughtii]</ref>

The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted christian and "hate" groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in [[File:PublicSchool.png]] public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property, provided religious exemption and legal protection against laws that unscientifically restrict people's [[File:Abort.png]] {{PCBA|Abortionism|reproductive autonomy}}, exposed harmful pseudo-scientific practitioners in mental health care, organized clubs alongside other religious after-school clubs in schools besieged by proselytizing organizations,<ref>https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-orders-saucon-valley-school-district-to-allow-after-school-satan-club-to-meet-in-district-facilities</ref> and engaged in other advocacy in accordance with their tenets.

The TST organization has been criticized for not always abiding by its own tenets and exploiting those it claims to help,<ref>https://medium.com/@SistersSatanic/mary-doe-speaks-her-story-the-satanic-temple-a-case-experience-e13e965127c6</ref> as well as allegedly engaging in racism; most frequently criticized however, is the organization's litigiousness, as the organization goes before court for many occasions, including the silencing of former members and critics.<ref>https://medium.com/@queersatanic/to-shame-the-devil-satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-ex-members-fails-again-d0f3827297d8</ref>

Despite the critiques of the organisation however, its tenets and ideology should be judged, and can be adopted, on their own and independently of the organization.

Secular Satanism is an atheist who (typically) was raised Christian. They are familiar with Abrahamic theology and view Satan as the sympathetic character, not God. The vast majority of the time they act either like an edgelord or a petulant child, especially around Christian ideologies.