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The Satanic Temple

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I noticed there wasn't a TST Lemmy community. The Satanic Temple is a modern satanic religion that aims to promote human rights and compassion. Check out their about page on their official website at https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us. Note that this community is not an official affiliation. TST is also separate and not affiliated with the Church of Satan, who have a slightly different viewpoint of what satanism truly is. Dunno what to post in here, but maybe some will search for this and take part. Hello!

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Super broad question, but I want to ask if there are other communities similar in one aspect or another to the Satanic Temple?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I've never been to a satanic temple, but the Unitarian universalist church I visited was 90% atheist. Sermons/lectures were way more philosophy than religion, though using bits from different faith traditions to emphasize their points. This particular church did a ton of climate and social justice activism too.

They weren't a separation-of-church-state focused group, but otherwise the vibe was perhaps similar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If it's separation of church and state you're looking for, in the UK we have the National Secular Society. They're an activist group though, not a religion. There are probably other secularist groups worldwide, I think the Freedom From Religion Foundation does the same thing in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

FFR are good people, I forgot about them but I am on their mailing list.

How about the CFI https://centerforinquiry.org/ , they do church/state stuff as well as pseudoscience. I THINK they took over the James Randi foundation prize for proving a paranormal ability, too.

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