• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    Please consider donating to the Satanic Temple if you can. They’re doing important work fighting Christian Nationalism.

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      6 months ago

      For those out there who only read headlines, the short of it is that many Satanists are rarely actually worshipers of Satan like a deity, many of them are just proactive atheists who have adopted the most abhorrent religious identity possible to Christians to provide necessary pushback against attempts at making the USA a Christian nation.

      The same people who scream relentlessly about supporting the constitution for issues like gun control, seem just fine with abandoning the 1st amendment’s Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clauses. So Satanists are forcing Christians to declare their choices out loud. If you’re going to say the law should allow religion to be part of government, then you have to be fine with all religions being involved, OR you have to admit that you don’t respect the USA’s founding principles and documents. You can’t have it both ways.

      There is not so much Satanism being promoted here as much as a spotlight on hypocrisy and I’m all in for it.