Fuck yeah!
-looks up ST beliefs-
I dunno, this all seems pretty reasonable to me…
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s will alone
They were founded in 2012 and exist primarily to challenge US laws that are overtly religious. If a governor passes a law saying public schools must teach Bible study, atheists can’t legally object under US law. You can only object if a law violates your religion, not your lack of religion. So what if you made atheism a religion? That’s the Satanic Temple.
It’s Satanic themed on purpose because “court rules schools must provide children Satanic literature” makes for a funny headline when in reality it’s just a paragraph about critical thinking.
atheists can’t legally object under US law
That’s not true.
At least one atheist organization has already had their display in the Iowa Capital.
They opened the capitol building as a public forum, therefore they have to allow any group that wants to send a message.
Turns out that all Satan had to do was to let Christians go apeshit on their own to win souls
Yeah. That Satan guy just suffers from bad marketing.
Seriously!
Have you read their collection of folk tales and hallucinations (or “Bible”)?
He comes off as the good guy more often than not!
That Jehovah dude, on the other hand, comes off as a petty tyrant prone to hissy fits and overreactions of catastrophic (and often genocidal) proportions to anyone who doesn’t RESPECT HIS AUTHORITAH or treat his favorite people as precious snowflakes that have first dibs on everything and everyone.
(Capitalized italics to be read in the voice of Eric Cartman from South
ParkAmerica)
Shefali Aurora, ACLU of Iowa staff attorney, said Monday that “state officials have made it clear that they denied The Satanic Temple permission to hold events in the Capitol rotunda because they disagreed with their religious viewpoint. It is a foundational principle that the government cannot restrict speech in this way, favor one religion over another, or discriminate against religious groups because they don’t agree with them …
Hell yeah. Give 'em hell, Satanic Temple.
lol they always do interesting stuff
