Reading Time: 4 minutes The Satanic Temple (TST) has filed a lawsuit against the City of Scottsdale, Arizona alleging religious discrimination following the city’s refusal to allow TST to participate in a policy that claims to allow any religious denomination to deliver invocations prior to public City Council meetings.
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Virginia Town Freaks Out at Occult Shop
Reading Time: 3 minutes The town of Richlands, VA police ordered the proprietor of one Mountain Magic occult shop to stop giving customers tarot card readings because ‘there is not a permitted use for tarot card reading in the zoning laws’.
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200 Years of Frankenstein
Reading Time: 4 minutes It probably doesn’t come as a shock to most that, the Satanic aesthetic being what it is, a lot of people in the Satanic community are fond of the horror genre. There are legitimate philosophical and historical underpinnings that cause these stories to resonate, and one of the great examples of that is Mary Shelley’s classic ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.’
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Satan as the Hero
Reading Time: 6 minutes Theists tend to default to thinking that Satanists worship Satan in the same way they worship god. That is wrong. Atheists on the other hand, tend to default to saying that Satanists are ‘just humanists’ who are ‘just using Satan as a metaphor to mess with the religious.’ That too is wrong.
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Lucien Greaves: Grey Faction and the ISSTD
Reading Time: 8 minutes Guest Post by The Satanic Temple Co-Founder Lucien Greaves regarding TST’s Grey Faction An Issue of Ethical Treatment The most objectionable part of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Disociation (ISSTD) conference is the fact that mental health professionals can receive Continuing Education Units for attending. It’s one thing when people, out […]
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Religious Fanatics Call Harmless Statue “Satanic”
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last month the city of Palaio Faliro in Greece became the recipient of a donated piece of public art that local religious leaders have proclaimed to be “demon and a soldier of Satan that, instead of being honoured, must be despised as blasphemous.” This fun little bit of apophenia seems to have something to do […]
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Satanic Activism Can (and Should) be Personal
Reading Time: 7 minutes An interview with a Satanist and activist on their personal campaign to help the homeless in their local community and how individual action is central to their beliefs.
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Devils, Demons, and Gender Norms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thoughts on a recent discussion about how gendered language in our mythologies may effect how we think about gender and inter-gender issues.
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Satanism and Forbidden Knowledge
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a recent presentation at The Satanic Temple’s Salem, Mass Headquarters Religious Studies Professor Joseph P. Laycock discussed the moral panic surrounding Dungeons & Dragons in the 80’s and 90’s.
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Arkansas to Reinstall 10 Commandments, Lawsuit Imminent
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Arkansas 10 Commandments monument is set to be reinstalled on their State Capital grounds. The Satanic Temple (as well as several other organizations) have said they will be filing lawsuits soon after calling the state’s refusal of TST’s Baphomet statue application an “unconstitutional (at both the state and federal level) act of government viewpoint discrimination”.