• TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Tenet 4 has to exist to cover their own asses. TST exists as a means to build a counterpoint to the reach of other religions within public services, so the snowflakes perceive it as “existing to offend” religious (christian) people.

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      4 months ago

      TST exists as a means to build a counterpoint to the reach of other religions

      False.

      TST is just as real and valid as any other religion.

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        4 months ago

        Where did I say TST isn’t a religion? TST can be a religion without depending on belief in a deity (or deities) or some other omnipotent being. That doesn’t make it a non-religion, but it certainly does oppose most other existing religions.

        From their website’s FAQ:

        The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. … To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions.

        Your conflation of my statement with delegitimization of TST as a religious organization is quite a reach.