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All Rights Reserved. The Church of Satan is considered the largest of several Satanic religious movements. The controversial church regards Satan as a spirit, rather than a deity, who "represents love, kindness and respect to those who deserve it. But no one can match the calm, firm, erudite, elegantly silly, and bizarrely soothing Twitter tones of the Church of Satan, which is not resisting, or at least not self-consciously resisting, at all.
For example:. Southern Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic. We're done taking the blame for others. Appreciate the hundreds of people alerting us to this, however we don't have a physical church with a Lucifer statue, so The account has its goofier, emoji-driven moments amid its sharp darts thrown at such common adversaries as the Vatican or Hobby Lobby.
They also closely coordinate with our high priest, Peter H. Gilmore, and share his direct insight on current events. I sent them yet more questions. Here, now, are their answers. Is it 80 percent? Is it frustrating to be so continually misunderstood?
I wouldn't say it's that high at all, and you can see that by looking at our tweet history. If we attempted to address even half of the misconceptions we come across, we wouldn't have a whole lot of time to do anything else. We'll call certain things out when we can spin it in a way that makes a bigger point, or if we can find some amusing way to throw it back at the public. It's always been "keep us out of it" or "don't blame Satan. Both the political right and left try to use us as a cudgel against their political counterparts.
It's not just with Trump, we just saw it now with Hillary Clinton after we batted back the lame jokes that she'll be some preacher for us with the obvious fact that she's a Christian. These people aren't a problem as much as they're boring and predictable.
Boring should be Satanic Sin no. The Church of Satan does not take official political positions. That's not to say that our individual members aren't politically engaged. Our members come to their own conclusions, take ownership of their positions, and express them how they see fit, and understand they should not impose those positions on other members.
We support a plurality of opinions and our members who are politically inclined span the spectrum, or take what we call the Third Side and break away from dogmatic political dualism.
Does it surprise you, that people are often surprised by this? It's not a moral argument, it's one based on our basic acceptance of human carnality.
We also champion self-expression, breaking away from cultural conformity, and developing who you are without regard to what society says you should be. We've been consistent on this for over 50 years, but we're not surprised that the herd has a short memory.
The vague consensus is that Twitter is a far uglier place now, overrun with trolls and Nazis and the like—a whimsical and vaguely useful thing at first that is now intolerable and cruel and actively Bad For Everyone.
Do you find that to be true?
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