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.
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lime@feddit.nu 1 month agoidk lavey was a pretty icky dude
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
so did he, but with shitloads of pseudoscience, materialism, and social darwinism. even laveyan satanism wasn’t a religion.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True. It was more like the Masons.
yakko@feddit.uk 1 month ago
He played a mean calliope, but that’s the nicest thing I can think to say of him.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How so?
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
big fan of ayn rand, social darwinism, and materialism.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 month 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.