Quote from: af_newbie on April 26, 2019, 04:15:12 PM

Quote from: CoinCube on April 26, 2019, 02:54:30 PM

Quote from: af_newbie on April 26, 2019, 01:30:13 PM

Which if their seven tenets do you personally disagree with?

The Satanic Temple has seven fundamental tenets:

1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
3. One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
4. 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 your own.
5. Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
6. People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
7. 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple

I disagree with economic egalitarianism, everything else looks good to me (maybe 2 is a bit radical, first change the laws, don't go over them).

The Devil as they say is in the details. The most dangerous lies mix truth and falsehood. I lack the time or desire to go into a point by point refutation of these but perhaps the following will enable a quick understanding of my thoughts.

~~Satanic~~ Temple tenets fixed by CoinCube
1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures.
2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit.
3. One's body is inviolable from the moment of conception.
4. The freedoms of others should be respected unless they unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another.
5. We should take care to ensure that our beliefs conform to reality. Scientific observation and theory is a powerful formalized tool that helps us achieve this.
6. People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we have an obligation to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
7. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought.

There is no logical way to go from the above tenants to:

And despite the fact that they claim that they dont worship Satan, the group does celebrate the black mass, it does conduct Pentagram rituals, and it does seek to put statues of Baphomet up in prominent public locations.

You agree with their tenets, why don't you call yourself Satanist? You do believe that Satan/Baphomet exists, don't you?

Do you prefer Christian mass theatrics? You know, cracker turning literally into the body of Christ and wine into the blood of Christ, all at once in all churches across the US, every Sunday. Is that why you are a Christian?

I think you are missing the point. If you believe in a certain religion you are simply following the good lessons it teaches. Asking if a satanists ideas are exactly the same as the churches is a redundant argument, because you are simply re-branding the word satanist to mean everything a christian believes. I can just copy all of christian beliefs and call it anything I want with that logic. In my opinion, the line is crossed when one religion claims to be the best.