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Jun 7
Satansplain #118
A look back at the infamous Church of Satan High Mass, held on 6/6/06. Hear shared memories of that night, related events, and the more general nature of actual Satanic gatherings.
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Jun 12
I knew Godwin's law (from Mike Godwin: as an online argument grows, the chances of a Nazi/Hitler comparison approaches 100%). But now I've learned Golem's law: the more thought Christians require to back up what they say, the more likely they'll call you "Jew!" and run away.
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Jun 12
Many of you have already seen my thread debunking the incredibly clueless people who accuse Satanists of following the Jewish Talmud. I've ammended the thread to address the equally stupid "why arnt u called da synagogue of..." question.
Jun 12
Another painfully dumb "argument" we get from painfully dumb people like Christgnosis, Jake Shields, and the like is "Why are you called 'Church of' Satan and not 'Synagogue of'?" This is another one of those things that's full of such lame premises, that it shouldn't even have to be explained. But here we go anyway:
1b. The term "church" has long been a standard term to use for a religious institution, which is why we see it with numerous other ones that aren't Christian: Universal Life Church, Church of All Worlds. Church of Light, Chuch of Scientology, Unitarian Universalist Church of some locality, Church of the Subgenius, Church of Aphrodite, The Rælian Church. Unification Church, and so on. The same can't be said about "synagogue".
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26 Jul 2023
I've been challenged by @christgnosis to condemn any lines from the Talmud (though Torah would have been easier) in order to disprove his claim that as a Satanist I'm somehow a supporter of Judaism.
I'll reply to this thread with examples and Satanic Bible ("TSB") references.
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5b. As most people already know, being "Jewish" or "a Jew" can mean one of two things: having Judaism as one's religion, or being of Jewish ethnicity. Most religious Jews are indeed ethnic Jews, too. But there are also people who have no Jewish ethnicity yet religiously practice Judaism (e.g., Elizabeth Taylor converted in 1959) as well as people of Jewish ethnicity whose religion isn't Judaism (e.g., Bob Dylan is ethnically Jewish but religiously is a Christian). So it is fallacious to assume that if somebody is one, the he or she must necessarily be both.
Note that "Jewish" is not the only example of something that could refer to an ethnicity or a religion. "Armenian" is another example.
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6b. As should be obvious from #3b, Anton LaVey's established religion (Satanism) is not theologically based on Judaism. No, the use of Hebrew letters in Eliphas Lévi's Sigil of Baphomet doesn't change this fact.
7b. Anton LaVey was at most 1/4 ethnically Jewish on his father's side. This would disqualify him from being considered ethnically Jewish enough for some of the more traditional denominations of Judaism. Regardless, he was not raised under the religion of Judaism.
Given this and all of the other points above, there is absolutely no merit to the argument of "Anton LaVey should have named his organization a synagogue instead of a church".
For more on the topic, see Satansplain episodes 88, 90, and 91.
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Jun 11
To those who continue to move the goalpost: the theist's God is not a "highest value." It is a literal being with a will, a throne, a verdict on your soul, and a room reserved for you after you die.
They shrink it down to "highest value" only when they need the equation to balance, and it swells back to full size the second they fold their hands.
Here is an analogy. A man tells you he is a die-hard Jets fan. Because he believes a magical orb sits buried under MetLife Stadium, that it demands daily devotion, and that when he dies he will go down there and be with it forever.
You tell him that is insane. You do not believe in the orb. You do not worship anything buried under a stadium.
So he says, well, everyone has a favorite team. Even people who never watch a single game technically have one. So we are exactly the same.
We are not the same. A team you lean toward is not a buried orb that runs your afterlife. Collapsing them only works for a man who needs you to share his faith so badly he will call a shrug and a religion the same thing.
The orb is their God. The favorite team is "you worship yourself." Same sleight of hand. Same cope. I don't have an orb. Get over it.
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We didn’t co-opt it, we defined it. Prior to 1966 it was a generic insult primarily used by Christians towards other Christians. We were the first to codify a religion and self apply the term. It’s not ironic nor for attention, and after 60 years ignorance is no excuse.
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Satansplain #118 - Reflecting on 6/6/06 (Church of Satan High Mass) churchofsatan.com/satansplai… via @ChurchofSatan
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Jun 8
acabei de trollar a minha própria organização religiosa e confesso que apesar de me sentir mal comigo mesmo me diverti até um pouco demais
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The fact that Cevin Soling's troll group (Satanic Temple) think these stunts help secularism, and the fact that Chaya Raichik (LibsofTiktok) still stupidly takes their bait every time, should tell you how clueless both of them are.
Another possibility of course is that both sides are saying "Oh I know, but I don't care, as long as I get to monetize this."
Jun 9
“Free satanic hugs” at the lgbtq pride festival for kids in Salt Lake City, Utah
This should tell you everything you need to know.
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Jun 8
"anYthiNG wiTH bLacK aND rEd iz suh-tANick"
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No, Glenn doesn't seem like a bot—just someone deep into celebrity conspiracy theories.
His claims mix some loose family background details with debunked ideas: Taylor's father Scott Swift was a Merrill Lynch executive with zero ties to the Church of Satan (those rumors usually twist "clone of Zeena LaVey" nonsense). The trans allegations rely on cherry-picked photos and speculation, not facts. Classic unconnected dots turned into a narrative.
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Jun 6
On the next Satansplain episode, I'll talk about what I was doing 20 years ago today.
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Jun 5
After looking at the screenshot and other posts from "BrokenHellscape", I present...
Signs of a dimbulb:
✅️ Brags about being smart via non sequiturs (e.g., computer code examples)
✅️ Types as if they've never seen the inside of a book (seeing "Kansas" get an apostrophe was particularly amusing)
✅️ Sometimes makes 3 or more replies in a row. Not because they've reached a tweet's character limit, but because they have no mental capacity to stop and compose their thoughts first.
✅️ Hears voices in his head
✅️ Weirdly excessive use of emojis, especially the "laughing so hard, I'm crying" one (usually a sign of "I need to tell myself I'm somehow right")
✅️ Brags about being allegedly physically big in real life, as if that helps with an online argument
✅️ Says "this will be my last reply", then keeps going
✅️ Makes up images of COS gatherings in an effort to downplay them, when in reality the person probably couldn't even organize a dinner reservation for a party of 6, let alone find 5 friends for it
✅️ Accuses the COS of all being politically aligned with whichever side the person hates (in this example, this person thinks all COS members, including myself, are "woke")
✅️ Thinks the COS would want them in the first place
Jun 5
Oh no, guys, this unhinged mentally unsell crybaby wouldn't ever join the CoS... oh we are truly missing out. How will we go on without this genius?
Keep doing the good work. Quality over quantity any day.
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