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The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.
"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday January 15 2018, @04:15PM (19 children)
The Satanic Temple basically exists to call out right-wing religious nutjobs whenever they think that pushing religion into the public sphere is the same as pushing Christianity into the public sphere. For instance, when Oklahoma passed a law welcoming religious displays in the state capitol, with the plan of putting a 10 Commandments monument there, the Satanic Temple produced a 9-foot statue of Baphomet with 2 adoring children looking up at him and demanded that Oklahoma put that statue up as well. Oklahoma changed their mind shortly thereafter. They've done similar sorts of efforts in response to attempts to put religious education in public schools, e.g. creating Satanic alternatives to Christian bible study groups, as well as countering a Christian religious group distributing their literature in public schools with religious literature of their own, known as The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities.
Their ideology is more political and philosophical than, say, the Church of Satan.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @07:17PM (18 children)
You're wrong about that. Satan's aim is to pull people away from God. So, yes, they are actually doing exactly what they believe.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday January 15 2018, @07:45PM (5 children)
When you say god, I'm going to go right ahead and assume you mean the Christian one, one of the many, many thousands of gods men have created over our history.
I have been pulled away from any belief in your god because the evidence for his existence is so poor, and I stopped believing in magic when I became an adult.
Satan had nothing to do with it. (Mostly because he doesn't exist either).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @08:45PM
Energeian Planēs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:15PM (1 child)
Must be in this context. Most other gods have a distinct name.
Except the god of evil who has several inc Lucifer, Beezlebub, Allah ,Satan et
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:39PM
Allah is Arabic for "The God". So you just claimed God and Satan are one and the same.
Just thought I'd point it out.
(Score: 4, Touché) by dry on Monday January 15 2018, @11:48PM (1 child)
Of course Satan, or rather using its original name of Lucifer exists. Lucifer is usually called Venus today, at least here and I've seen it with my own eyes. There's even evidence of hellish properties there, though no evidence of magical properties.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:05AM
Lucifer is Hesperus, half the time. Will this religious nonsense continue to dog the Sirius of Astronomy through the Ptolemaic error? It's the same goddamned planet!
(Score: 4, Touché) by aristarchus on Monday January 15 2018, @08:18PM
Where is our -1 Heretic mod?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday January 15 2018, @08:50PM
Riiiight....
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday January 15 2018, @09:12PM (8 children)
An imaginary being's aim is to pull followers away from another imaginary being? Gosh, I need more coffee, this is going to be quite entertaining. I love your conviction!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @09:15PM (6 children)
I am intrigued that this idea seems so foreign here.
Do you not know who Satan is?
(Score: 4, Touché) by edIII on Monday January 15 2018, @09:30PM
Saddam Hussein's submissive bitch if South Park is any indication, which is just about as authoritative as any other source....
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:15PM (3 children)
Well, according to the Bible (book of Job, specifically), the satan (it's not a name, but rather, a common noun) is sort of a prosecuting attorney in the court of heaven, who acts to tempt humans into abandoning their faith.
How the satan turned into Satan though is a strange matter, mostly tied up in the medieval period when The Devil got crafted out of a mishmosh of Samael, Lucifer, and mentions of the satan, among other, less Biblical sources, primarily with the aim of providing an archetypal enemy figure the Church could use to scare followers into doing their bidding. Considering how limited their ability to actually force people to behave was considering the lack of any modern technology, it was an effective ruse.
Religion of love...through fear. Or something. Ergot has a strange effect on people.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:28PM (2 children)
Very good. Yes, a fallen angel, cast down to Earth. In opposition to God, and tempting humans into sin.
Also equated with the serpent who beguiled Eve into eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge, leading to mankind being cast out of the Garden of Eden.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @03:19AM
Are you trying to say that you believe this being actually exists?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by blackhawk on Tuesday January 16 2018, @02:14PM
Adam eats the fucking apple that "God" forbid him to eat, Eve get's the blame and the punishment (painful childbirth for all eternity). Every person born since then carries the blame for something none of them did.
Seems legit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:27PM
"Satan" is past, like "Lucifer". It is now called "Allah".
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:20AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:29AM
Not necesarily. I still have my altars to Linus and Lemmy set up, despite the best efforts of the Stannic Temple.