Guest post at The Friendly Atheist from that Lucien Greaves dude from the Satanic Temple.

Guest post at The Friendly Atheist from that Lucien Greaves dude from the Satanic Temple.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/01/13/when-it-comes-to-the-satanic-temple-christians-seem-to-love-bearing-false-witness/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

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  1. Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPunditJanuary 13, 2016 at 1:38 PM

    They're posers. They're not even actual satanists. Not sure if that makes them better or worse, actually. But yeah, almost all Satanists are idiots in some way or another.

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  2. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 1:59 PM

    That's the joke. They use the trappings of satan to expose hypocrisy.

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  3. Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPunditJanuary 13, 2016 at 2:17 PM

    Yeah but it's really not a religion at all. If they were doing that to anyone other than satanists, I'd have a bigger issue with it. But I really don't think any satanist is a non-poser; it's just some don't realize they're posers.

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  4. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 2:20 PM

    You can't disprove a declaration of faith. If they've got the tax status, they're a religion.

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  5. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 2:24 PM

    So I looked it up: Please note that The Satanic Temple believes that religious organizations should not be tax exempt and for that reason contributions are not tax deductible.
    http://thesatanictemple.com/donate/

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  6. Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPunditJanuary 13, 2016 at 2:36 PM

    Casey G. Oh I'm not complaining on the basis of crazy U.S. tax rules. I'm complaining on the basis of being a scholar of religious studies, and professional Wizard. I was accusing them of a kind of moral crime (of being phoneys) rather than any legal crime.

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  7. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 2:46 PM

    As an atheist, I love their trolling of the religious right. And they've got better taste in music than those Flying Spaghetti Monster nerds.

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  8. Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPunditJanuary 13, 2016 at 3:17 PM

    I do like their trolling! But unlike the Spaghetti Monster guys, a lot of the public in general tend to actually believe these guys are real Satan-worshipers, when in fact they are not.

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  9. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 3:20 PM

    And that's the joke.

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  10. Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPunditJanuary 13, 2016 at 3:25 PM

    Well, fair enough. I'm just saying, there are posers who really DO claim to believe in Satan that get pissed off at these guys, for what must amount to the Lamest Cultural Appropriation Fight Ever.

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  11. Casey G.January 13, 2016 at 3:34 PM

    That I can agree with.

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