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TST: Just a bunch of Cosplayers?

Accipeveldare

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In my opinion, TST is one of the worst occult organizations you could possibly join. Chanting "Hail Satan" without even believing in such a deity is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Not to mention the things they wear are just absolutely outrageous. Any thoughts?
 

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I uploaded a book about them written by a professor of religion and already started to read it. I'm still at that outfit's beginning, it seems like they started out as a political activist group fighting for religious freedom and the seperation of state and church, disguised as a Satanist hoax out to shock conservative Christians, trying to get a statue of Eliphas Levi's Baphomet erected at state capitols, for example. That was in 2013/14, they might have evolved into something more genuine occult by now.

The Satanic Temple are non-theistic Satanists like LaVey's original Church of Satan, and both use "Hail Satan!" although they don't believe in him as a deity, more as a principle of individual freedom, or so I've read.
 

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I uploaded a book about them written by a professor of religion and already started to read it. I'm still at that outfit's beginning, it seems like they started out as a political activist group fighting for religious freedom and the seperation of state and church, disguised as a Satanist hoax out to shock conservative Christians, trying to get a statue of Eliphas Levi's Baphomet erected at state capitols, for example. That was in 2013/14, they might have evolved into something more genuine occult by now.

The Satanic Temple are non-theistic Satanists like LaVey's original Church of Satan, and both use "Hail Satan!" although they don't believe in him as a deity, more as a principle of individual freedom, or so I've read.
I see, that still doesn't make sense though. I personally believe you shouldn't say things like "Hail Satan" or "Ave Sathanas" if you don't even believe in them. It just seems... Corny and fake.
 
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