Because I like sardonically roasting idiocy, I decided to take a gander at the primest stupid I could find, and when I stumbled across this, I knew it was some AAA level idiocy.
Now, just to get any possible bias out of the way, yes, I'm a devout Christian, but no, the mere fact people want to worship Satan does not offend me insofar as such is their choice. If they choose to do so in good faith and with an informed conscience, so be it.
However, what I'm about to mock is done because what they claim as their basic creed is an ouroboros of fart-huffing contradictions that deserve sporking.
https://archive.ph/IQXZ2
https://thesatanictempleoregon.com/about-us/
(My comments in bold, original text in italics)
The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religion and is an IRS-recognized religion. Our Oregon Chapter strives to be a space of conscious, inclusive behavior in a hostile society. We also strive to model the core values of TST.
Right off the bat, we got some foolish contradiction here. Now, religion can be one without a standard godhead or group of deities, but they call themselves SATANISTS, as in, devotees of SATAN, who is recognized by two other religious faiths as a supernatural personage, namely Christianity and Judaism. Their entire "religion" is built on the premise of a lie right from the start with this in mind.
As for their Oregon chapter goals, you guys want to venerate rebellion (as Satan is considered a rebel against God), hence the name, but rebellion goes directly against the concept of being inclusive. Satanism, by definition, is about being offensive to what is considered morally normal by society because they are anathema to the Satanist.
These guys just need to come clean and admit they were too lazy to make up a clever name for their lame parody of religion and use the Satanist name just to be offensive.
The Satanic Temple has 7 Tenets:
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
You guys stole this from secular humanism. Even most people of religious faith of nigh all denominations can agree to this concept in its most fundamental sense. Actual Satanism revolves around rejecting morality, so this alone has nothing to do with actual Satanism.
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
Yet another high-minded ideal that has sod all to do with the actual veneration of Satan. Admittedly, actual Satanism does spit on the concept of laws they deem in restraint of their own propagation, so to a degree this pays lip service to the concept of Satanism, but actual Satanists do not want "justice", they want the freedom to do what they want with no moral shackles. True justice involves the imposition of some moral framework, even if it's only a secular one, on others.
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
Now, I can't really have an issue with this on the surface. This basically says "you have absolute free will to do what you want to yourself because you are its sole master. However, yet again, this is not an original concept and has been stated in many other ways by other religions, beliefs, ethical frameworks, and even legal arguments. Granted, a moral framework like Christianity or Islam would place restrictions on what is permissible to do to your own body in terms of morality, but the free will to do so anyway remains.
All this vagueness is saying is something any libertarian or free will absolutist could say minus any religious faith.
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.
Congrats guys, you have just played yourselves. By your own logic, you make no sense. How can you promote "inclusion" when the right to offend creates EXCLUSION. Logic 101, guys.
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.
More galaxy-brained contradiction. Actual Satanism happily distorts the tenets of the Abrahamic faiths to serve their purposes because the whole point is REBELLION against those faiths. The malarkey you guys are spewing is "trust the science" with a hypocritical statement that science shouldn't be distorted to fit one's beliefs.
If you guys were actual Satanists, distorting facts is kinda what you are supposed to do, rebellion means overturning the laws of reality if that would serve your rebellion's purposes.
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.
Am I dreaming or are they espousing something that most moral frameworks say is a moral net positive? But seriously, Satanism, while it acknowledges Man is faulty, they have the self-centered view you should do what you consider best for you, screw anyone else. By default, actual Satanism encourages amoral sociopathy. This laughable failure at claiming the name of Satanism is espousing a secular version of the Golden Rule, which runs directly counter to actual Satanism.
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.
What does this mean and why do you think it should be applied to anything that calls itself Satanist? This is incredibly meaningless, sounds all nice and high-minded, and ends on a vaguely anti-intellectual note, which is really off for a group whose prior espoused tenets involve huffing one's own intellectual farts.
In addition, our chapter chooses to take a hard line stance on homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and bigotry of ANY kind. Safety is key.
You guys are just a bunch of soy-chugging atheists doing a bad parody of actual religion if you believe this. Actual Satanism is about sowing division and encouraging rebellion against order. You are claiming to want to support current societal cause celebres meant to ensure social conformity, which runs directly counter to actual Satanism, which would seek to foment chaos and strife.
I'm just going to end this by saying the IRS really needs to take a closer look at you guys, your cause is a logical mess of things that make no sense all done in the name of a deity who, by your own admission, you supposedly do not believe in yet whose name you wear around your necks with pride.
I suggest you guys go back to the drawing board and come up with something better, Heck, even the Pastafarians are less stupid than this, if only because their beliefs were intentionally meant to be silly. You guys are actually serious and even more laughable as a result.
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