• Delta_V@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    TST exists as a means to build a counterpoint to the reach of other religions

    False.

    TST is just as real and valid as any other religion.

    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Where did I say TST isn’t a religion? TST can be a religion without depending on belief in a deity (or deities) or some other omnipotent being. That doesn’t make it a non-religion, but it certainly does oppose most other existing religions.

      From their website’s FAQ:

      The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. … To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions.

      Your conflation of my statement with delegitimization of TST as a religious organization is quite a reach.