For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response.
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V
Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
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.
https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets
DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN?
No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq
She’s 13. Does anyone know if she’s allowed to become a member? The website isn’t clear on that.
Not to be confused with the Church of Satan.
The Satanic Temple is way better.
Just putting it out there for anyone who doesn’t know.
Can you please elaborate? I hear this a lot but mostly from people who know little to nothing about CoS. They just read that comparison chart that TST threw together with hard bias.
My understanding, though it may be totally wrong, is TST is atheist and TCoS is theist. Everything else derives from that. TST is humanist.
TCoS supposedly isn’t all that active except for their admittedly amusing Twitter. They also seem anti fun and stuffy whereas TST pushes “Satanism” as tongue in cheek social activism.
Both are atheist, tho if memory serves TCoS has rituals and associations with “magick” and the occult in the past
From their webpages, I would think they use the acronym CoS, and not TCoS. I was wondering if web searches were deliberately not showing relevant results.
my dumb ass keeps reading it as “Circle Of Steel” and wondering what any of this has to do with Fallout
CoS is 100% atheist and always has been. The “magick” people reference is mostly mentally manifesting your hopes and dreams to come true. There’s no supernatural anything involved.
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Like, “Man, I really hope I get that raise. Let me think about it really hard and focus on how to earn it,” type bs.
Yeah that’s “the secret” law of attraction junk
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I’m sure brainstorming about how to earn more money would provide a few different options, yes. Expecting a raise to just miraculously appear certainly isn’t the way to go. It’s not like just thinking about getting a raise will make it happen. It’s about setting it as your prime directive and thinking about HOW to make it happen. Your destiny is your own hands.
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Or just a good way of triggering those damn pearl-clutchers. 🤣