(March 24, 2020 at 9:03 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The Satanic Temple is a nontheistic humanistic religion that distinguishes itself from LaVeyan Satanism and can often be found making a point about the desirability of separation of church and state.
I watched that doc and they look at LaVey with sympathy because LaVey Satanism was also a parody of religion. But of course Satanists just invent their religion on the go.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
