"We are going to put Satanic chaplains in Florida schools, nothing in the bill places limits on who can become a chaplain, and Ron DeSantis can not simply amend the Constitution limiting the religious liberty of some by proclamation from the podium. "
excellent, yes. exactly. @thesatanictemple
Yo, can we get a radical socialist patriotic organization to sign up for this too. I want to see an IWW vs American Legion brawl in a high school. It’ll be good for the history students.
Please donate to the Satanic Temple if you are able. They fight these important cases on our behalf. Christofascists need to be reminded that this isn’t a christian nation and that all religions are equal(y bad).
I’m Christian and have donated to the Satanic Temple. Separation of Church and State is good for both institutions. I want the church out of politics and I want politics out of the church.
If there are politics in your church, it’s not really a church… and the IRS would very much like to know
Churches can have stances on political issues. They can’t have a stance on how to vote.
A example would be gay marriage (to be clear, I’m 100% supportive of LGBT+). Many churches have been opposed to homosexuality for millenia. However, in the second half of of the 20th century it became a relevant political issue. That didn’t mean the churches had to stop talking about it. I fact, that would be an example of the state inserting itself into religious teaching.
It’s a fine line to walk. Churches don’t pay some taxes, but they do pay others (my old church had a building it rented to a for-profit business, and that rent was taxable), and the employees all pay income tax. They also have some very-specific equal-employment exceptions. They can require that employees who serve a religious function be a practicing member of the faith and follow the rules of the church.
That is: the pastor and other religious-leadership employees of a Southern Baptist church can be fired if they’re not Christian, are gay, or have an extra-martial affair. But the sound guy, finance director, and janitor cannot, because their job duties don’t include religious leadership.
Yes, I am a member of the TST, and we are going to corrupt children in public schools with the help of Christians who have opened the door to us. They also want to corrupt the children, but we’re better at it, so we will win. Hail Satan!
Unless they want to close that door again and respect separation of church and state. If they did that our whole plan would be ruined. Under no circumstances should they do that…
Yes, it should even have to exist. But crazy judges think you have to be in a religion to be protected from other religions.
So, there’s a lot of confusion about what TST is and what it does.
TST exists as a church for Satanism. Its activism is (primarily) based around fighting for the rights of Satanists.
If TST didn’t need to fight for the rights of Satanists, it would still need to exist for every other reason that a church exists.
I would worry about the safety of these chaplains.
Purely technically speaking, isn’t the Satanic Temple free to choose who is an official Priest of the Satanic Temple…? Could they make someone a Priest even if they don’t volunteer for the role? It would make some fun headlines, I’m just sayin 👉👈
That would be funny, but it violates the fourth tenet: “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 one’s own.”
I mean the tenets really are more like suggestions otherwise more of us Satanic Temple Enjoyers would be vegan according to the first tenet lol
“One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.”
It’s the “in accordance with reason” part, it is fair to interpret the consumption of meat as a natural and reasonable thing. I don’t eat meat, but I also don’t begrudge those that do so without causing undue suffering (such as kosher butchering or sustainably farmed fish)
I don’t think you can be made a priest non consensually from a legal perspective, and from just a PR angle, I think it would undermine a lot of what they’re trying to do. It would be funny as fuck though.
You could proclaim that a random person is Beelzebub reincarnate and worship them in a non-harassing manner, but honestly some edgelord would take it too far and cause a legal fuss.