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Yesterday, under representation from the ACLU of Iowa, we (The Satanic Temple), filed a federal Free Speech and Religious Exercise lawsuit as the result of a refusal, on the part of Iowa state officials, to allow us the same public accommodations they grant other religious groups.
The Christian Nationalist movement benefits from an appearance of ecumenicalism that belies its tribal political orthodoxy, far removed from theology.
Mao Tse-tung was a monomaniacal, brutal dictator who, when not actively executing perceived opposition — merely killing masses of Chinese citizens as the unintended consequence of catastrophically failing policies — showed zero regard for human suffering either way.
In a 2016 Science magazine paper, ‘The Genome Project-Write,’ scientists within what is called the ‘HGP-write’ team [Human Genome Project-write] outlined the aspirational goal of chemically synthesizing an artificial human genome.
His birth name was Kim Song Ju, but he adopted the name Kim Il Sung because, while his own accomplishments were mediocre at best, Kim Il Sung was the name attributed to a mythic Korean war hero, an omniscient and omnipresent giant, with the ability destroy Japanese invaders by the force of his breath alone.
One month ago, I wrote a piece in which I explored the idea of creating a language for use within The Satanic Temple, a liturgical language that could be utilized for rituals and general subculture-building purposes.
In 2023, we at The Satanic Temple opened our first telehealth abortion clinic, which we named, ‘The Sam Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic,” in reference to the Supreme Court Justice who penned the majority opinion for the overturning of Roe v Wade
Last week, Fox News Digital reported on a Christian minister who was described by one interviewee as somebody who “views the pulpit as a political weapon to advance [a] radical agenda,” bewailing that there is not an existing political cause this minister supports and “hasn’t [also] claimed to have found in the Bible and attempted to force on” the local public.
It is “dissociative,” not “dis-associative.”
According to at least one telling, it was JRR Tolkien’s efforts to create a history for his self-created elvish language that inspired him to write the Lord of The Rings series, rather than the language being created to supplement the books.
