The Satanic Temple is going to win. It is a federally recognized religion. You can choose to let all religions say an invocation, or you can choose to let no religions say an invocation, but you can’t pick and choose who gets to say one based on what religions you approve of.
> “Once I learned that he wanted to end his convocation with ‘Hail Satan’ it ceased being something I could support,” La Spata wrote in the email. “For all of my desire to be inclusive, that would be a betrayal of my personal faith.”
That is the whole point of the First Amendment. What an idiot.
I don’t like this. The goal of prayer at the start of a political meeting is to appeal to a higher power for wisdom, clarity and righteousness of purpose. I don’t believe Satanists have that in their wheelhouse.
On one hand, they have a constitutional right to express their religion. I get that.
On the other hand, the person they’ve chosen to worship is the actual enemy of mankind. This leaves me *just a wee bit concerned.*
Most of these people will tell you that they’re not actually worshiping the devil, that they’re more interested in humanism than faith, and that they’re just expressing themselves in this way to eliminate any other expression of faith in these political arenas. If that’s the case, I’d prefer they be more straightforward in their arguments. If they don’t actually believe in Satan, then they have no faith to express, and their religious expressions can be ignored.
However, some of them are likely true believers. In that case, they’ve actually chosen to side with the devil. There is no popular conception of Satan as anything other than a deceiver and destroyer of mankind. There is no argument that could be made that a faithful adherent of the devil has the common good of mankind as his or her goal. Their motivations are entirely suspect, and they should be prohibited from any expression of faith, as that expression would be an embarrassing attempt to undermine the purpose of the political meeting.
So, what is the purpose of these arguments? Why do these people actually want to be heard?
BusyAtilla says
Give them hell, Satanists..
No pun intended.
ddr1ver says
The Satanic Temple is going to win. It is a federally recognized religion. You can choose to let all religions say an invocation, or you can choose to let no religions say an invocation, but you can’t pick and choose who gets to say one based on what religions you approve of.
Courtjezter84 says
Hail Satan
CustosEcheveria says
Hail Satan! Ave Satanas! 😈
Fetlocks_Glistening says
By Vectron’s Golden Wings, this is amusing
haemaker says
> “Once I learned that he wanted to end his convocation with ‘Hail Satan’ it ceased being something I could support,” La Spata wrote in the email. “For all of my desire to be inclusive, that would be a betrayal of my personal faith.”
That is the whole point of the First Amendment. What an idiot.
ArgentScourge says
Satanic Temple doing God’s work.
PerendiaEshte says
I don’t like this. The goal of prayer at the start of a political meeting is to appeal to a higher power for wisdom, clarity and righteousness of purpose. I don’t believe Satanists have that in their wheelhouse.
On one hand, they have a constitutional right to express their religion. I get that.
On the other hand, the person they’ve chosen to worship is the actual enemy of mankind. This leaves me *just a wee bit concerned.*
Most of these people will tell you that they’re not actually worshiping the devil, that they’re more interested in humanism than faith, and that they’re just expressing themselves in this way to eliminate any other expression of faith in these political arenas. If that’s the case, I’d prefer they be more straightforward in their arguments. If they don’t actually believe in Satan, then they have no faith to express, and their religious expressions can be ignored.
However, some of them are likely true believers. In that case, they’ve actually chosen to side with the devil. There is no popular conception of Satan as anything other than a deceiver and destroyer of mankind. There is no argument that could be made that a faithful adherent of the devil has the common good of mankind as his or her goal. Their motivations are entirely suspect, and they should be prohibited from any expression of faith, as that expression would be an embarrassing attempt to undermine the purpose of the political meeting.
So, what is the purpose of these arguments? Why do these people actually want to be heard?