For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response.
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV
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.
V
Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets
DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN?
No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq
She’s 13. Does anyone know if she’s allowed to become a member? The website isn’t clear on that.
Friends gained is what I’m talking about, numbnuts. You associate with people before you become friends with them. Friendship doesn’t happen overnight, and it happens much less if you’re the school outcast because “she’s a Satanist and her dad baptized her in blood” or whatever rumors are about to start flying around once her current friends confirm it’s true.
By then, no amount of explaining the rationalization of the difference between the CoS and TST will un-outcast her.
Thankfully middle- and high- school aren’t forever, but many outcasted kids just off themselves because to them, so far it has been forever and they don’t know any better.
Signed, the formerly outcasted middle schooler from the Bible belt who is fine as an adult but wishes my parents would have thought about the consequences of their actions.
When was the last time you were in school, 1965?
2008… In the bible belt as specified and clarified in the initial comment. You?
Edit: I didn’t even realize this was the atheism sub. The collective of teenagers and adults damaged by religion and still haven’t found a healthy way to cope, so they circlejerk about it to seethecope.
Protip: talk therapy works, and fits within a staunchly materialistic worldview.