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The Satanic Temple

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I noticed there wasn't a TST Lemmy community. The Satanic Temple is a modern satanic religion that aims to promote human rights and compassion. Check out their about page on their official website at https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us. Note that this community is not an official affiliation. TST is also separate and not affiliated with the Church of Satan, who have a slightly different viewpoint of what satanism truly is. Dunno what to post in here, but maybe some will search for this and take part. Hello!

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The local chapter here has broken off because of issues with Lucien Greaves (I'm avoiding that discussion), so I'm kind of floating around.

Even having a few likeminded people on Lemmy would be great.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

I hear you. I was a member from early '18 through mid-pandemic. The chapter I was in was moderately active, and I had a number of friends. There was a fair amount of shit-talking about Doug Mesner from disaffected people, but it was pretty easy to ignore. Then the new Code of Conduct came out, and it was... Bad. Like, members weren't allowed to publicly talk about their own experiences in their chapters on Reddit without prior permission and having their statements vetted first. It was clearly authoritarian. I also saw a person that was fairly high up in the org use slander and lies to get someone he personally disliked--a former chapter head!--completely thrown out.

So I dipped. And in leaving, I lost most of my closer friends in the area.

Unfortunately, you can't separate the org out from Mesner and Solling; they have completely legal ownership of the brand and all associated trademarks and IP. No matter what rules are put in place, as long as they have legal control over the entity the rules are meaningless. ...As has been demonstrated by Mesner throwing out a lot of ministers that were critical of his bullshit.

If you want to find people that are like-minded locally, your best bet--assuming you aren't in a hard-red state/province--is to find an anarchist mutual aid organization that's close by. I've found that anarchists--not ancaps--closely align with the values that TST claimed to hold.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

I got pretty excited when I saw some of the things TST does, and immediately went looking for a local group. My hope was to be able to get out with a bunch of folks and do things that may have some sort of positive impact.

It was so cool seeing other chapters in different US cities and states get out and fight for things. Unfortunately, my state just... don't try. It's depressing to see how much people have given up around here.

Sorry, just ranting.

[–] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's seem to be plenty of like minded people. Not members but most seem to be sane and atheist or not too religious from what I have seen.

I didn't really follow much about the leader using the same lawyer that defended Alex Jones and other trumpy grumpies, but maybe your leader is trying to poison the well. What better way to upset the right than get their lawyers to work with the satanic temple.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

IMO, that was one of the least objectionable things that Mesner did. The attorney that he hired in one case offered his own time for free, which is a pretty solid indication that, despite having some shitty clients, they lawyer was more concerned with 1A issues than the ideological position of his clients. The fact is that constitutional law cases rarely involve people that you or I would personally like; most of the people are pretty awful.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I need something like this, but I can't leave the house to go anywhere. Making friends with ExJW's might be more therapeutic.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yo, what can i do ya for?