Rise of Satanism in America… The Satanic Temple, founded in 2012 by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry, has since spread to dozens of chapters across the US and Europe
They first cropped up seemingly out of nowhere about six years ago, adorned in black capes with curved devil horns affixed to their heads, holding posters and black American flags as they shouted ‘Hail, Satan’ on the steps of government institutions from Arkansas and Florida to Oklahoma and Detroit. The antics and declarations seemed like a hoax to many – onlookers and journalists and politicians alike – until it became apparent that members of newly-formed The Satanic Temple were here to stay. And they were growing, exponentially. Since TST’s founding in 2012, the organization has increased from a handful of members to tens of thousands, with chapters all over the US and the globe, from Stockholm to London and Los Angeles to Texas. And their ‘pranksterism,’ as filmmaker Penny Lane first considered it, has given way to a well-conceived ethos, forming an organized ‘religion’ for a ‘group of contrarians’ opposed to any organization at all.
The Satanic Temple, it seems, is becoming more and more firmly established across the United States – largely composed of individuals who don’t even worship Satan in the first place but center on a different interpretation of biblical teachings. And Lane’s new documentary about the group, premiering later this month at Utah’s famed Sundance Film Festival, paints a surprising portrait of the unlikely ‘religion’ – one which has challenged even the preconceived notions of the director herself. ‘The reason this became a feature length documentary was that I found so many interesting surprises at each stage of discovery,’ says Lane, the title of whose documentary – Hail, Satan? – fittingly addresses the controversy surrounding the relatively neophyte group.
Who cares? world's going to the dogs anyway and it's not like these are converts, they are just edgy atheists who would say as much on any census
Alexander Murphy
These satanists are evil. They rape children and brainwash the masses to accept the sins of fornication, blasphemy, and idolatry. You can be detached to this world all you want, you can have no love for your neighbor, but God will know the fruits you bore for Him when judgment day comes.
They're atheist larpers, fam. They don't believe in a satan because they don't believe in a god Satan doesn't parade himself as the most evil of evils. Evil doesn't make a big show about how evil he is. Evil wants to hide, in plain sight. In every corrupted vision of God, in every masturbating teen, in every divorcing and adulterous couple, in every little white lie, in every lustful look, in every violent intention, in every malice, in every stolen pen from work … and, yes, in every child molested in the dark … … in every little sin, satan and his horde hide, conspire, plan and plot against the kingdom of God, against every atheist who puts on a fedora, against every Christian who dares to call herself thus …
Any actual temple of Satan would work entirely against his plans … and don't go hurr durr-ing that "satan that dumb" Never underestimate the enemy. They are former-angels who are far stronger and craftier than any mortal man who dares take them lightly
But these jokers … they ought be pitied more than feared
Aren't they technically doing that by calling themselves atheist larpers?
Carson Roberts
You are missing the point! It doesn't matter if they are ironically or unironically worshiping the devil, what matters is that they are evil. EVIL The same evil you see in the bible. They ought to receive full judgement from God for their crimes. They ought to be strung up by their necks for the sick things they have done and are doing to people.
This is what they say. How is it with their heart is altogether different, much like with the pharisees. Even if they truly don't believe in God, the reason why they only ever choose to oppose the Church is to advocate abominations against natural law, which are knowingly evil even in the absence of revelation.
They should not be feared, but they shouldn't be pitied either.
Forgot to add that near every one of those poohsies would pooh their breaches at the mere thought of sacrificing a baby to a cow demon and would run screeching back to Christ.
