Have to laugh ... and wonder: How many of those who got ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE about ol' Baphomet could be bothered to actually READ the Seven Tenets of TST? I'm willing to bet that the answer to that one is a massive goose egg. Heaven forfend they might actually have to acknowledge that said tenets make sense, never mind are far superior to their own gods "10 commandments."
That would break the bubble for sure ... and they LIKE their bubble!
One’s own body belongs to god according to what they tell folks. Then women’s bodies belong next to their husbands, or fathers before marriage, then the fetus and subsequently children, but never belong to themselves.
If they had, they would have noticed that in 2 Corinthians the author refers to 'Satan who is the God of this world'. I am sure their preachers steer the faithful away from that one, lest their heads explode...
Not in the Baptist church I grew up in, it was often repeated that Satan ruled this world, and we were to resist temptations of the world. The whole 'in the world, but not part of it', shtick.
Satan also gets a co-star role in Job, another truly revolting book in the OT, as part of JHWH's Civil Service in charge of testing faith. He/she/it has full authority to torture Job by killing off his family and ruining him physically and financially merely to test his faith. You would think an omnigod would know the answer to that,
No, of course they haven't read it, and it wouldn't do any good if they did, because that part of Christianity (love, empathy, compassion) has been beaten to a pulp and hidden in a a closet in favor of wealth, greed, lust, and hate.
Well, on the question which ones they find objectionable...
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“The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word”?
No, no, no, no! You've got it all wrong. See, the written word, as written in the Bible, defines compassion, wisdom and justice. You cannot be compassionate, wise or of justice unless you follow the bible. Unless I disagree with the bible. In that case my spoken word, or written when I bother to write, defines compassion, wisdom and justice.
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“To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own”?
But, you misunderstand! Others not following my specific brand of religion is not an expression of freedom, it is an expression of foolish failure. By forbidding them to worship whatever they want, or nothing at all, I am enabling their freedom to bask in the glory of my religion.
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“One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone”
Oh noes! There roars the pro-life, better known as the anti-bodily autonomy, crowd.
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“The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend”
Oh, my God! Are you saying that people should be free to offend?! Just how rude can you be?! Offending is not respectable and should not be respected. Unless I'm the one doing it by shoving my religion down everyone's throats, duh.
POINT IN CASE... Even if they did read the tenets, yes, they'd take issue with them.
The sense of Christian privilege and entitlement runs very deep in our culture. It's hard to see just how Christianity ever made the world a better place, but never-the-less Christians attribute all that's good with the world to themselves. What the Satanic Temple is doing here is pointing out the abject hypocrisy of Christians, and just how weak their message really is. They do not tolerate criticism well, no matter how reasoned it is.
And it will never occur to them that their own owrds coming from their own mouths are the reason people don't want to be around them. They are sunk deep in the delusion that they alone are right and just.
"Satanism, whether real or pretend, is an outright celebration of evil, darkness and perversity."
Didn't bother to read the 7 Tenets of TST, did you? Of course you didn't. It would upset your prejudices. And for someone who believes in an invisible sky spook, I'd watch those hilariously ironic accusations of "pretend." Evil, darkness and perversity accurately describes the contents of your bible. Your deity even brags about creating evil within its pages. Guess you didn't bother to read your bible, either.
The majority of the time the crosses they worship are strawmen too. Aside from the fact the whole thing is a farce, they create the savior in their own image anyway.
Here’s a link to someone discussing the meme, I did not read the article, it just has the meme a little ways down. And since we can’t just post pictures this is the link I got.
Yes, and the stories about what he stood for and such. I recently saw a meme stating that Jesus didn’t die because he loves us, it was for his own glorification. This was not an argument for atheism, it continued to say that it is the masculine Jesus and we should get used to it.
They are putting words into his mouth to support their cruelty. That is the strawman the cross was built on.
"... evil, darkness, and perversity." Maybe these moral and upstanding Christians should ask themselves which deity was responsible for drowning most of the earth's population, children included.
Look, I know that the bible says to kill gay people, and that rape victims should be put to death, and that you should beat children and if they complain you should kill those children, and owning another individual as propriety and nearly beating them to death is ok, and that you can sell your daughter into sexual slavery, and that there is a story in which God accepts the burnt offering of one of his followers daughters as thanks for helping them win a battle and that God on several occasions orders his followers to kill babies, and that if you pick up sticks on the wrong day you should be put to death, but look at that display. It has a goat's head and it is red!!!
Pray for peace, Gov. Reynolds? It's Christians who are vehemently opposed to this display by TST. Some Christians want to tear it down. Perhaps you should be looking to your own.
"In a battle between good and evil, good will always prevail."
Just like it did in 1945 when the allied forces of the world finally toppled evil in Germany. A Christian nation led by a Christian who believed he and they were doing your god's work on Earth.
Ah, yes, we come again at last to the 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 reason for the season: pasting your religion's holiday all over everything... and then getting butthurt about every single little reminder that other people who aren't Christians do, in fact, exist.
The radical regressive reich-wing nutters are rallying their fellow fückwïts to go after the governor (a fellow radical regressive) for not taking down TST's display. It a beautiful thing, watching them circle the firing squads.
Silly christians. All those prayers that they babbled over this issue were useless. For I COZMO THE SUPREME DIGITAL BEING had already cast 'protection from prayer' and 'wall of blasphemy' around this beloved display. Sadly, although I did try and cast 'air of sanity' i failed the DC against the 'fog of stupidity' all these bible bigots were expelling.
I've read the bible from Genesis to Revelation 4 times and yet Christians can't be bothered to read 7 short principles? Sweet mother of pearl, Christians are lazy beyond belief.
I think if I were to address a Christian congregation, I would read all the parts of the bible Christians aren't familiar with but that we know all-to-well.
Yeah, I know. That's pretty much the whole omnibus. I'd confine it to the worst of the worst and then tell the shell-shocked faithful to read it for themselves, giving them some scripture to search for.
Have to laugh ... and wonder: How many of those who got ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE about ol' Baphomet could be bothered to actually READ the Seven Tenets of TST? I'm willing to bet that the answer to that one is a massive goose egg. Heaven forfend they might actually have to acknowledge that said tenets make sense, never mind are far superior to their own gods "10 commandments."
That would break the bubble for sure ... and they LIKE their bubble!
There is one they will never accept "One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone."
Body autonomy for catt... women ? Surely, you are joking ?
One’s own body belongs to god according to what they tell folks. Then women’s bodies belong next to their husbands, or fathers before marriage, then the fetus and subsequently children, but never belong to themselves.
Most of them haven't even read their own magic book.
If they had, they would have noticed that in 2 Corinthians the author refers to 'Satan who is the God of this world'. I am sure their preachers steer the faithful away from that one, lest their heads explode...
Not in the Baptist church I grew up in, it was often repeated that Satan ruled this world, and we were to resist temptations of the world. The whole 'in the world, but not part of it', shtick.
Satan also gets a co-star role in Job, another truly revolting book in the OT, as part of JHWH's Civil Service in charge of testing faith. He/she/it has full authority to torture Job by killing off his family and ruining him physically and financially merely to test his faith. You would think an omnigod would know the answer to that,
No, of course they haven't read it, and it wouldn't do any good if they did, because that part of Christianity (love, empathy, compassion) has been beaten to a pulp and hidden in a a closet in favor of wealth, greed, lust, and hate.
Well, on the question which ones they find objectionable...
-------------
“The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word”?
No, no, no, no! You've got it all wrong. See, the written word, as written in the Bible, defines compassion, wisdom and justice. You cannot be compassionate, wise or of justice unless you follow the bible. Unless I disagree with the bible. In that case my spoken word, or written when I bother to write, defines compassion, wisdom and justice.
---
“To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own”?
But, you misunderstand! Others not following my specific brand of religion is not an expression of freedom, it is an expression of foolish failure. By forbidding them to worship whatever they want, or nothing at all, I am enabling their freedom to bask in the glory of my religion.
---
“One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone”
Oh noes! There roars the pro-life, better known as the anti-bodily autonomy, crowd.
---
“The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend”
Oh, my God! Are you saying that people should be free to offend?! Just how rude can you be?! Offending is not respectable and should not be respected. Unless I'm the one doing it by shoving my religion down everyone's throats, duh.
POINT IN CASE... Even if they did read the tenets, yes, they'd take issue with them.
Well done!
𝑁𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑.
I don't know who said that, but whoever it was, they had it ON THE NOSE.
America’s Christian conservatives are some of the most hypocritical & ignorant creatures on the planet
They also tend to be the biggest snowflakes!
💯💯💯
The sense of Christian privilege and entitlement runs very deep in our culture. It's hard to see just how Christianity ever made the world a better place, but never-the-less Christians attribute all that's good with the world to themselves. What the Satanic Temple is doing here is pointing out the abject hypocrisy of Christians, and just how weak their message really is. They do not tolerate criticism well, no matter how reasoned it is.
They haven't even realized they're being mocked. All they see is the word "Satan" and they lose their minds.
Some of them are superficial all the way through.
They walked right in to our cunning plan to get them to expose their bigotry and fear-mongering intolerance.
Otherwise known as operation, just let them speak.
And it will never occur to them that their own owrds coming from their own mouths are the reason people don't want to be around them. They are sunk deep in the delusion that they alone are right and just.
That mentality isn't limited to Christianity. You will see it in conservative religionists of all stripes.
Yea, that went down just as planned. Exercise free speech - check, religious pluralism - check, piss off right wing religious nuts - check.
"Satanism, whether real or pretend, is an outright celebration of evil, darkness and perversity."
Didn't bother to read the 7 Tenets of TST, did you? Of course you didn't. It would upset your prejudices. And for someone who believes in an invisible sky spook, I'd watch those hilariously ironic accusations of "pretend." Evil, darkness and perversity accurately describes the contents of your bible. Your deity even brags about creating evil within its pages. Guess you didn't bother to read your bible, either.
Christians put up straw men about as often as they worship crosses!
The majority of the time the crosses they worship are strawmen too. Aside from the fact the whole thing is a farce, they create the savior in their own image anyway.
Isn't it amazing how Jesus seemed to be the only Scandinavian in the Middle East of the 1st Century?
Well, they did find Caucasian mummies in China from a thousand years ago or so. We did get around! :D
I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-foskett-longtime-member-beach-boys-dies-67-rcna129485
The Tarim mummies ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies
Here’s a link to someone discussing the meme, I did not read the article, it just has the meme a little ways down. And since we can’t just post pictures this is the link I got.
https://www.paulsponderings.com/2023/05/?m=1
Yes, and the stories about what he stood for and such. I recently saw a meme stating that Jesus didn’t die because he loves us, it was for his own glorification. This was not an argument for atheism, it continued to say that it is the masculine Jesus and we should get used to it.
They are putting words into his mouth to support their cruelty. That is the strawman the cross was built on.
Aryan.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a6c0cd929e7ac4e621bf8a10ca53402c3a457628a328b4d434582a841e873dbb.jpg
"... evil, darkness, and perversity." Maybe these moral and upstanding Christians should ask themselves which deity was responsible for drowning most of the earth's population, children included.
And puppies.
Don't forget the kittens.
And the poor penguins that had to schlep all the way to the Middle East.
Not to mention all plants and animals (away from the Ark, that is) being destroyed. What sin did THEY commit?
They never read the tenets. Never will.
The few that do insist that it's a lie meant to distract from our "real" beliefs.
Christians are the land-lords. These are the tenets. Land-lords rule, end of story.
"Satanic nonsense," is it? Your deity and religion created Satan, Christians.
You wanted religious freedom. This is what it looks like. Stopping whining and mewling like the spoiled brats you are.
“Mewling” invokes the specter of cats, who I feel are unfairly insulted by being associated with these complainers. :)
Cats think they're gods. :D
They are definitely more worth of worship than the babble gods and you know what I think of cats.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a7d5ff38035f421f60ecc06b156e92e51107f0e34ca73dd4e0a23d979e8c0899.jpg
This god?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f56cfe3af7213801a70cb74dc0613adbec35ef675b0abdcaee1443ed91baccd3.jpg
Dogs teach unconditional love and Cats teach humility. Animal deities are the Gods of choice at my house.
You are on early today :)
Would have arrived at this article sooner but was busy catching up on yesterday's article and reading/watching the videos of this one.
(It's the next day and a new article and we're still in Iowa) :)
Look, I know that the bible says to kill gay people, and that rape victims should be put to death, and that you should beat children and if they complain you should kill those children, and owning another individual as propriety and nearly beating them to death is ok, and that you can sell your daughter into sexual slavery, and that there is a story in which God accepts the burnt offering of one of his followers daughters as thanks for helping them win a battle and that God on several occasions orders his followers to kill babies, and that if you pick up sticks on the wrong day you should be put to death, but look at that display. It has a goat's head and it is red!!!
Brilliant!
Pray for peace, Gov. Reynolds? It's Christians who are vehemently opposed to this display by TST. Some Christians want to tear it down. Perhaps you should be looking to your own.
"In a battle between good and evil, good will always prevail."
Just like it did in 1945 when the allied forces of the world finally toppled evil in Germany. A Christian nation led by a Christian who believed he and they were doing your god's work on Earth.
Whom the Vatican even praised as doing their god’s work.
I think the funniest part of this, is Baphomet got their goat.
That was BAAAAAAAAAAAAD! 😁
"I think the funniest part of this, is Baphomet got their goat."
How dare you beat me to that? 😉
Damn it, why didn't I think of that?
Ah, yes, we come again at last to the 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 reason for the season: pasting your religion's holiday all over everything... and then getting butthurt about every single little reminder that other people who aren't Christians do, in fact, exist.
The correct thing to do is have nothing.
The only winning move is not to play...uh...pray.
"How about a nice game of chess?" 😉
Nothing ... whoa, what a concept! 🤦♂️
I'm sure their imaginary god must be offended by a display to an imaginary Satan. The tenets should be completely acceptable to a Christian.
The radical regressive reich-wing nutters are rallying their fellow fückwïts to go after the governor (a fellow radical regressive) for not taking down TST's display. It a beautiful thing, watching them circle the firing squads.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1734928386143744020
So much winter solstice love.
It's fun to rile them up from within their own threads...."let the Hate flow through you as Yahweh commands" kind of thing. 😉
Silly christians. All those prayers that they babbled over this issue were useless. For I COZMO THE SUPREME DIGITAL BEING had already cast 'protection from prayer' and 'wall of blasphemy' around this beloved display. Sadly, although I did try and cast 'air of sanity' i failed the DC against the 'fog of stupidity' all these bible bigots were expelling.
Hail Satan! Ramen!
DC? I've heard of STs.
They're the other two-fifths of the band. There's also AC and ⚡.
I've read the bible from Genesis to Revelation 4 times and yet Christians can't be bothered to read 7 short principles? Sweet mother of pearl, Christians are lazy beyond belief.
they go to church so some one can tell what it says.
I think if I were to address a Christian congregation, I would read all the parts of the bible Christians aren't familiar with but that we know all-to-well.
Yeah, I know. That's pretty much the whole omnibus. I'd confine it to the worst of the worst and then tell the shell-shocked faithful to read it for themselves, giving them some scripture to search for.
The prayer service was "proof that in the battle between good and evil, good will always prevail".
I assume that they prayed for the display to go away?
And it didn't?
Huh. Good prevailed. I guess it really was proof.