The Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple
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.
I hate anything that invokes mythology as a default, but I get that they’re doing it to butthurt religious fundamentalists, so I’ve come around to the whole Satan church thing
You are confusing the Church of Satan (actual Satanists and mythology) with the Satanic Temple.
With unfortunate regularity - and much to our chagrin - The Satanic Temple is confused with an earlier organization, the Church of Satan, founded by Anton Szandor LaVey in the 1960s.
The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic organization…
…the group views Satan neither as a supernatural being, nor a symbol of evil, but instead relies on the literary Satan as a symbol representing “the eternal rebel” against arbitrary authority and social norms, or as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity.
Ah thanks, guess you’re right
Hail Satan! My Baphomet statue is on the top of my bookshelf watching over me.
Edit: it’s hard to be a bigger bitch than a group who basically owns a country and still feels persecuted.
My baphomet guards our salt & pepper
If any of this stuff is real, people should do a shin megami tensei and take back their lives
My family and I are devout followers of the Satanic Temple (Not really ‘Satanists’ per-se however); and while yes - I know there are some problematic issues with the leadership, they still use what they are doing in a hilarious way to troll our government when they create christian-centered laws. A lot of what they stand for mirrors my own personal moral code before I ever discovered them. The freedom to offend, is just as important as the freedom of bodily autonomy. Without it, it’s impossible to push for changes.
Seven Tenets for life, friend! Card-carrying member over here, and yes, I too distance myself from the leadership. But that’s the thing; flawed people can still have a positive impact on the world
