The Satanic Temple are the absolute best at protesting in this country. All of these people out here setting up faux homeless camps should hire the TST to do the protesting instead.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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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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TST is selective about how they protest. Remember, the federal courts made an example of the Pastafarians and stripped them of their rights. That's what DeSantis was threatening when he said that Satanism isn't a "real" religion.
he said that Satanism isn't a "real" religion
Which shows the ridiculousness of mainstream religion.
Joseph Smith said the Book of Mormon was translated into English from writings he found on golden plates in a reformed Egyptian language
but that’s a ”real“ religion
The core belief [of Scientology] holds that a human is an immortal, spiritual being (thetan) that is resident in a physical body. The thetan has had innumerable past lives, some of which, preceding the thetan's arrival on Earth, were lived in extraterrestrial cultures
And that's a “real” religion too.
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
But the “Seven Fundamental Tenets”, despite being closer to “christian values” than any described in the bible, apparently don’t make up a “real” religion.
Just outlaw all this religious bullshit, make a conscious effort to “be excellent to each other”, and stop inventing stupid reasons to disagree and fight with people.
l missing the point. The separation of "real" and "not real" religions is arbitrary and capricious. The federal government can declare for any reason that the religious rights of any group are invalid, as long as they don't have a lot of power or money. Scientologists and Mormons have a lot of both, so those are "real" religions. In 2016, Cavanaugh v. Bartelt declared the freedom of religion dead and ushered in a new era of fascism.
When they are inevitably kicked out of a school and Florida or the local government tries to keep it quiet, we need to make sure to be loud in our support and in person protesting if possible
The Satanists' ace in the hole has always been the understanding that the scotus would view satanism as the same as whatever other religious was being pushed on whatever school - thus disallowing both. I worry we will soon start seeing courts decide plainly that Christianity is legal in schools, but Satanism is not.
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I do love it when you guys set up the religious nut freedom 'Not like that!' responses. More power to ya!
Hail Satan. Hail Eris.