ATHEISTS: SATANISM OUR 'WEAPON' AGAINST 'RELIGIOUS BIGOTS'

ATHEISTS: SATANISM OUR 'WEAPON' AGAINST 'RELIGIOUS BIGOTS'




The Satanic Temple’s graphic for its public school program

In her book “The Happy Satanist,” the leader of a group pressing for an “After School Satan Club” at a Washington state elementary school admits she and her colleagues don’t believe in any supernatural being and view Satanism as a “formidable weapon to fight for the separation of church and state.”


Lillith Starr (Lillithstarr.com)
“I’m proud to be part of a movement that dares to stand up to the increasingly shrill voices of the American theocracy, the intolerant religious bigots, and the abusers who use Christianity as an excuse for their evils,” Lillith Starr, the head of the Seattle chapter of the Satanic Temple, explained in the introduction to her 2015 book.

Members of Starr’s group also showed up at a high school football game where a coach had been leading post-game prayers, demanding they be given equal time. And a member in Alaska gave the invocation at a local council meeting that ended with, “Hail Satan.”

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Starr explained what the Satanic Temple is about in a presentation to the Seattle Skeptics Society posted on the Seattle group’s website.

Starr said, according to the video: “At our core, we are an atheist activist group. That’s why we exist.”

She identified herself as a former ‘LaVeyan Satanist,’ a follower of the late Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan.

But a statement on the Seattle group’s website declares: “We are atheistic; we do not believe in supernatural beings like God or Satan. We celebrate the literary Satan as a potent symbol of rebellion against tyranny.”

“We have a lot of atheists, humanists, some skeptics,” Starr said in the presentation.

“Basically anyone who is really tired and fed up with what’s going on with the religious right in this country and they want to do something.”

In her book, she says the Satanic Temple is “currently making headline after headline as they show up the hypocrisy of Christian legislation, demanding equal rights for Satanists wherever Christianity is inserted into our governments, schools and laws.

‘In the spirit of free expression’

Last October in Bremerton, Washington, west of Seattle, the Satanic Temple of Seattle came to a Bremerton High School football game clad in devil costumes to demand equal access to pray publicly. They were responding to assistant coach Joe Kennedy’s post-game ritual of quietly praying on the 50-yard line, which drew a crowd of players, parents and local residents in solidarity when the practice was opposed as an alleged violation of the First Amendment. The Seattle Times reported at that time that a half-dozen students and teachers invited the Satanists to attend an Oct. 29, 2015, game in “the spirit of free expression.”

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