idk lavey was a pretty icky dude
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Satanists are annoying but only to shitheads because they remind the christofascists of the logical consequences of their actions/rules.
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 hours ago
LaVey got his shtick from Ayn Rand, and his Satanism was basically opposition to the hippie peace-and-love stuff. Nowadays, its attitude is indistinguishable from mainstream Republican Christianity.
The Satanic Temple were (AFAIK) a prank/art project based around the thought experiment of “if Christianity is about cruelty and domination, what if Satanism was about niceness?” The people running it are allegedly somewhat problematic, though its existence did spawn a raft of sincere Satanic-themed social-justice movements like the Global Order of Satan.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
He could not be more divorced from the modern satanic temple which has essentially absolutely nothing to do with religion/worship/woowoo of any kind and only uses the religion label to leverage the same kind of loopholes that are baked in to society to benefit christian nationalism. They support atheism and science and just try to be as annoying and obstructive to organized religion in government as possible.
lime@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
so did he, but with shitloads of pseudoscience, materialism, and social darwinism. even laveyan satanism wasn’t a religion.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
True. It was more like the Masons.
yakko@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
He played a mean calliope, but that’s the nicest thing I can think to say of him.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
How so?
lime@feddit.nu 3 hours ago
big fan of ayn rand, social darwinism, and materialism.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 5 hours ago
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