A Michigan man was arrested for planning to bomb The Satanic Temple headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, police said.

Luke Isaac Terpstra, 30, of Grant, Michigan was arrested on Jan. 2 by Grant police, according to a Jan. 12 news release from the Salem Police Department. Terpstra is charged with possession of bombs with unlawful intent.

Michigan law enforcement were tipped off about Terpstra’s plan by his mother, WZZM reported citing court documents.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    11 months ago

    The Satanic Temple has 7 tenets:

    1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

    2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

    3. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. 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.

    Yeah, definitely monsters, unreasonable, pure evil /s

      • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        Whoops, thank you for the correct, you can tell how frequently I type out the word “tenets”! Correcting it.

    • zarkanianEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      According to another article I read, he believed they were pedophiles. QAnon strikes again.

    • prettybunnysEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      Well, Christ has a good message too for what it is worth.

      Not that I’m in any way against spreading the 7 tenants because they are beautiful.

      My belief is that the animus towards the Satanic Temple is a mostly projection at this point.

      • rifugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        11 months ago

        My belief is that the animus towards the Satanic Temple is a mostly projection at this point.

        My belief is that it’s pure ignorance. Do you think this guy actually looked beyond the name to learn a little more about the organization and still decided to bomb the place? No, any Christian that hates the Satanic Temple does so purely based on the name and their assumptions.

        • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          11 months ago

          What are you talking about? Abrahamic religions are all about hate and discrimination. This person was taught to be this way by their community, church, family, etc. This is actually what Christians believe but few are whacko enough to start working on extreme measures. Few will bomb an abortion clinic, for example, but how many nod in satisfaction when reading about it in the news the following day?

          • StenSaksTapir@feddit.dkEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            Never forget why they’re called “abrahamic religions” in the first place. The foundation tale is basically one of an abusive relationship: “Sacrifice your son to prove you love me. Ok, just kidding, I just needed to know you’d do it. Love you.”

        • prettybunnysEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          I think it’s both, to be frank.

          Yes there is the “evil bogeyman” aspect to it, at the same time the projection is strong.

          I know what the Christian faith has done and what has been done in its name but I myself am not a violent person and wouldn’t do anything violent towards them.

          This man was violent and believes in the evil bogeyman and I reckon that his projection of what he’d do coupled with the bogeyman is what drove him to act.

          I believe the ACTS were seeing now are a product of projection along with folks who think like them shouting louder.

          satan has ALWAYS been the bogeyman to them.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    Right wing extremists have been the #1 terrorist threat in the US for years according to the Department of Homeland Security.

  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    When will someone stop these Satanists and their desire to kill, rape and pillage?!?!?!?!?!

    Wait, what?!?!?!!?? Its the Christians again!?!??!?!??!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?? Damnit man!

  • athos77@kbin.social
    13·
    11 months ago

    Can I just add how much I’m enjoying the fact that apparently The Satanic Temple decided to locate their headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts? Delicious!

    • krellor@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Lol, yes, the image of Mitch impersonating a puffer fish is what got me to look more closely. Don’t know why this image but it’s hilarious.

  • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the most confusing thing just reading the headline and source. A man from MI, arrested in MA, reported by a website in MO.

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      It doesn’t say AP but must have come over a wire service of some sort because there is no way that a reporter in MO did the research on this. This is surely an article that was written by one organization and republished by another.