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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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Satanic Temple gets ready to send chaplains into Florida schools (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/thesatanictemple

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The organisation known as the Satanic Temple is getting ready to send its chaplains into Florida schools, as a bill edges closer to adoption that allows volunteer chaplains in schools.

The religious group, which does not actually believe in Satan, encourages “effective and artful protest”, according to its website.

In the ten years since its conception, the group has advocated for First Amendment rights, as well as religious freedom, across the United States.

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[–] FuglyDuck 77 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Godspeed.

(Oh. Wait. Uh….)

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Satanspeed

[–] Tedrow 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stan is fast as hell. I saw him beat a dog in a race once.

[–] FuglyDuck 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

me too. To be fair, it was a newfie. not exactly fast. (unless pizza is falling on the floor.)

[–] Tyfud 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Goodspeed

[–] moistclump 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they advocating for religious freedoms or challenging what “religious freedom” means when christian nationalists just want to use it for their own benefit. I get the sense they’d be just as happy to have a real separation of church and state or church and education but because Christians want to blur that line satanists are happy to remind them that religious freedom applies to all religions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

They really want a clear separation of church and state.

Normally, when these kinds of laws or rules are created, it is with the intention to be solely utilized by the Christian faith.

While the same approach could be done with Judiasm or Islam, invoking Satanism is a much clearer signal for Christians. "Why is the school promoting Satan?" becomes a leading question to start the discussion that maybe government shouldn't advocate or promote any religion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's their solution for mental health?! School chaplains??! Man, this country is so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

No, their solution is to threaten school chaplains, that way the Satanic Temple trains some secular counselors in reflective listening and developmental psychology in response to the call for religious volunteers Since the Satan Chaplains are working for an activist cause, they're cheaper than actual counselors. And all the school has to do is admit that an active Satanist works in the school.

It's chess on a five-dimensional manifold, man.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Hail Satan!