The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?

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The Satanic Temple has been granted 501(c)(3) non-profit status as a recognized religion by the IRS. If you're near a city that's showing it, consider going to see "Hail Satan?", a documentary by filmmaker Penny Lane now making the rounds in limited release.

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2019, 11:27:08 AM »
Praise be to Satan!

Next step, we must use underhanded methods to pressure the public schools to teach Satanism instead of PE.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2019, 03:11:38 PM »
Satan is just Christianity's version of the "trickster" god, the giver of knowledge entity(like Prometheus).
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2019, 06:24:22 PM »
Satan is just Christianity's version of the "trickster" god, the giver of knowledge entity(like Prometheus).

In The Satanic Temple, Satan is not a god. Christianity can believe as it pleases.

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2019, 06:35:42 PM »
This is great. If those televangelist grifters can get away without paying taxes, why not the Satanists?
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2019, 06:51:22 PM »
This is great. If those televangelist grifters can get away without paying taxes, why not the Satanists?

Perhaps they have higher moral standards?
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2019, 03:58:26 AM »
To have higher moral standards than a tele-evangelist, you just must have said sorry when you bumped into someone and half meant it.

I’m not that religious, but one that meets in high open places, stands with arms out to talk to their deity and delights and venerates the naked form, has got to have something over one that meets in dark cold places, has you on your knees when talking to the boss and is appalled by nakedness (generalising here).
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2019, 01:35:07 PM »
Jura's a witch.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2019, 01:56:29 PM »
It's 2019.  How long will us take us as a society to not immediately assume that every female that uses supernatural force maliciously is a witch?
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2019, 03:12:11 PM »
... one that meets in high open places, stands with arms out to talk to their deity and delights and venerates the naked form ...

I hope that's not your impression of The Satanic Temple!

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2019, 11:47:32 AM »

No, that's an American phenomena, I base it on the followers of the old gods whose names have been added to Satans' as a means of oppression, those who stand on the high tor's, sky clad and moon tanned, who feel the earths pain and hear her wrath rising.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2019, 12:06:57 PM »
Told you.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2019, 05:37:48 PM »

No, that's an American phenomena, I base it on the followers of the old gods whose names have been added to Satans' as a means of oppression, those who stand on the high tor's, sky clad and moon tanned, who feel the earths pain and hear her wrath rising.

What I meant was that The Satanic Temple does not regard Satan as a deity in any way whatsoever.

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2019, 11:16:03 PM »
How many followers do you need before a cult becomes a religion?

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2019, 05:41:59 AM »
I think it's money that makes the religion.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2019, 11:33:55 AM »
How many followers do you need before a cult becomes a religion?
I don't think that there is a specific number that the IRS requires, but I imagine as in many things there are a number of criteria relevant to the ruling.

Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2019, 03:22:59 AM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2019, 05:44:31 AM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
In fairness that's at least partly because the book's about God. In Harry Potter, Harry killed one person while Hitler killed no one, so Harry Potter's worse than Hitler.
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2019, 12:01:22 PM »
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.
Maybe, but he's not really into killing, is he?

Anyway, god created Satan, so who should take responsibility?  God needs to lawyer up.  That Cohen fellow should be good, once he gets out of jail.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2019, 01:22:52 PM »
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.
Maybe, but he's not really into killing, is he?

Anyway, god created Satan, so who should take responsibility?  God needs to lawyer up.  That Cohen fellow should be good, once he gets out of jail.
If he just walks under that arch like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon tried to do in Dogma, that's like the ultimate pardon. Then he can be God's lawyer.

Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2019, 05:11:31 PM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
In fairness that's at least partly because the book's about God. In Harry Potter, Harry killed one person while Hitler killed no one, so Harry Potter's worse than Hitler.
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.

So in a set of books about the xtian god, god is the bigger serial killing mass murderer by several orders of magnitude than the one who is supposed to be the bad guy?
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2019, 01:32:48 AM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
In fairness that's at least partly because the book's about God. In Harry Potter, Harry killed one person while Hitler killed no one, so Harry Potter's worse than Hitler.
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.

So in a set of books about the xtian god, god is the bigger serial killing mass murderer by several orders of magnitude than the one who is supposed to be the bad guy?
Honestly, the Bible doesn't really have 'a bad guy.' Sometimes Satan gets a mention, but it's only ever for lone scenes, he's a bigger deal in pop culture than he ever was in the book.

If you live for thousands-billions of years then a book that focuses on the smite-happy times is going to amass one hell of a body count.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2019, 09:50:04 PM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
In fairness that's at least partly because the book's about God. In Harry Potter, Harry killed one person while Hitler killed no one, so Harry Potter's worse than Hitler.
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.

So in a set of books about the xtian god, god is the bigger serial killing mass murderer by several orders of magnitude than the one who is supposed to be the bad guy?

If you read the Book of Enoch it clarifies and gives backstory to the Old Testament that God is actually killing off the mutant offspring societies of the fallen angels who are devoted to destroying all that is good with their pegan anti-religions.
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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2019, 10:37:43 PM »
If you read the Book of Enoch it clarifies and gives backstory to the Old Testament that God is actually killing off the mutant offspring societies of the fallen angels who are devoted to destroying all that is good with their pagan anti-religions.
And the Book of Enoch gives a detailed description of the Flat Earth Universe of the early Hebrews.

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Re: The Satanic Temple recognized as religion in US. Hail Satan?
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2019, 01:49:13 PM »
According to the bible, god killed approximately 2.8 Million people and satan/the devil killed 2
In fairness that's at least partly because the book's about God. In Harry Potter, Harry killed one person while Hitler killed no one, so Harry Potter's worse than Hitler.
If Satan published his biography I'm sure there'll be plenty in there that didn't make it into the Bible.

So in a set of books about the xtian god, god is the bigger serial killing mass murderer by several orders of magnitude than the one who is supposed to be the bad guy?

If you read the Book of Enoch it clarifies and gives backstory to the Old Testament that God is actually killing off the mutant offspring societies of the fallen angels who are devoted to destroying all that is good with their pegan anti-religions.

And may he rue the day he failed to do the job properly, the Anakim and the children of Lilith still recount the tyranny of the failed god and all those who would kill those they cannot repress.
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