#fuck the satanic temple

[queersatanic]

The Satanic Temple and Christian nationalists are on the same side

TST isn't engaging in "successful trolling" or undermining Dominionists; they are actively fueling a culture war that benefits both reactionaries and corporate Satanists

In general, people will call The Satanic Temple's activities “successful trolling” or “drawing attention to “the direct conflict between Christian Dominionism and the US Constitution”, claiming it’s the *reactionaries* who are falling for something every time.

In reality, the idea that the right wing is the one being hoodwinked assumes that they aren't benefitting from exactly this, and that these conflicts do not boost both sides taking part in it, each running their own grift for their own reasons.

Partially, this is because Doug "Lucien Greaves" Misicko and Cevin Soling (a.k.a. “Malcolm Jarry”) are fundamentally reactionary Gen X edgelords whose politics never go further left than right-wing libertarianism.

But the reason The Satanic Temple and the Christian nationalists are on the same side is that both of them materially benefit from pointing to the other as “the enemy”.

If Republicans didn't have TST, they'd want to invent them (and have). The Temple is their perfect foil.

These Satanic panics get both parties more attention, a higher profile, and more money as folk primarily motivated by anti-partisanship reflexively support something opposed by the groups that those folk hate.

“This’ll really piss off my conservative uncle/liberal niece.”

Yes, it seems like it’s fun and a good thing to watch The Satanic Temple piss off people you hate. But that feeling is exactly the lubricant that makes the grift work.

We've long said that the best way to describe The Satanic Temple to someone unfamiliar with them is "Scientology For Mall Goths".

So imagine instead it were Scientologists doing this.

Would you still root for them just because Republicans were the ones getting publicly mad?

If media only ever treated Scientology like merry pranksters, never getting into the front companies, treatment of former members, or histories of the owners of a corporate religion, would that be informing people of what’s going on?

Or would it be doing the exact opposite.

[alephskoteinos]

I have finished Satanism: A Reader. I was interested in writing a deconstruction of Lucien Greaves' response to the Church of Satan, but I deemed it a waste of time after reading all of it. So I'll just get to work on my overview of the book as soon as possible. What's the point of giving the effort to someone who takes Steven Pinker as "scientific" evidence of the triumph of democracy?

But I suppose I will say one thing about it. Greaves contends that democratic states are less likely to go to war with each other. The words "with each other" do most of the work here. War is still an omnipresent reality for human life, just that it seems distant to us now.

[queersatanic]

Y��all already know.

the spn drama could take a whole year to explain in the least so i’m good

[ladycatashtrophe]

"Wow, you're so self-aware! It takes most people years of therapy and dedication to get to that point." Thanks, I constantly feel completely disconnected from my physical being and the material sensation of my body, brain, and spirit/soul is so overwhelming that I often have to see myself as an objective third-party instead of an integrated entity. Father son holy spirit and all that.

[diabolicphallus666]

I pledge allegiance to the Unholy Kingdom of Satan, and to the Legion for which it stands, one world order under Satan, indestructible, with lustfulness and sodomy for all!

[yourheartinyourmouth]

i need to meet and make friends with Satanists. and to be clear, i mean Satanic Temple Satanists, not Church of Satan Satanists. CoS are transphobic ass-clowns who think their kinky roleplay games are real

Luciferians I can mostly hang with, as long as you’re not just an Xtian going through an “i hate my dad” phase

[onlytiktoks]

[anarcho-catboyism]

Honestly even if The Satanic Temple wasn't a pyramid scheme that took advantage of women and ran by "fOrMeR" fascists, its method of trying to 'one up' republican lawmakers is not only extremely neoliberal but also naive.

Republican lawmakers know that their religious freedom laws aren't equally upheld. Playing gotcha games with conservatives over and over again is pointless. They don't CARE that they don't equally uphold laws. The only reason they make laws seem equal *on the surface* is because they are playing smoke and mirrors with the general public. You'd think after failing court cases over and over and funneling your funds into suing queer former members (without telling those who donated where their money is ACTUALLY going (my guess is into the pockets of the top collaborators) ) that some people would realize how pointless it is to play semantics with beta fascists.

[nottheofficialtstaccount]

algebra makes me want to die. why are there letters. there should be no letters in math. what is this. where did the numbers go. they no longer exist. what the fuck.

[home-and-having-tea]

I have to spend a couple days hanging out with Midwestern Christians. I'm only through the first day and I'm considering becoming a Satanist lmfao

[dyscomancer]

sick and fucking tired of louisiana's descent into a theocratic wasteland so fuck it let's go

[queersatanic]

They're right, and they should say it

[alephskoteinos]

TST's latest ad is basically just a PragerU video with a slightly worse aesthetic

[nottheofficialtstaccount]

say it with me everyone:

fuck the Salvation Army.

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

[diabolicphallus666]

Wooooo HAIL ALMIGHTY LORD SATAN

Abortion Rights coming back to Missouri I can feel it!!!!

[graspingbirdtail]

The Devil made me do it!