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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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Stylish display of tenets (horizontal) from @darkartrandy on Twitter

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[–] GnothiSeauton 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I generally really like the tenants, but tenant 4 seems to violate the paradox of tolerance. I feel like it should be not include those who wish to use their freedoms (of offence and otherwise) to abuse and limit the freedoms of others. Otherwise, we won't really have freedom at all.

[–] half 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I didn't know freedom meant people doing stuff that sucks. I was thinking more of a "choose your own cellphone carrier" thing.

I have an idea. Every time there's a disagreement about what forms of expression count as "limiting the freedoms of others," we'll call you up and have you make a ruling. Of course that's a lot of work for one person, so let's erect arbitrary, temporary, economically limited, pseudo-representative democracy in order to elect a committee of people responsible for those decisions. Of course we'll need a way to quickly identify them as the special people ─ those whose senses of morality are elevated above all the rest of us rabble ─ maybe some tiny hats? We'll make sure to pick a shape of hat that hasn't yet been used to propel a civilization towards genocide.

edit: I've got it! Armbands.

[–] GnothiSeauton 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yay! Can I have proportional representative electoral system too? That would be a big improvement over the system I am currently subject to.

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