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SendAstronomy t1_iseiy6b wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Pennsylvania district rejects Satanists’ $578 donation for school supplies by magenta_placenta

Nice strawman.

Here are the 7 tenets of The Satanic Temple. Find me a church that comes close to this level of morality.

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us

I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

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Ks_Mom22 t1_isf73q2 wrote

I'm Muslim and can tell you that we don't come close to any of this either.

Halal meat is supposed to be as compassionate as you can get. You can't slaughter another animal in front of another or even let them see the knife. You have to be quick with a sharp blade, the animal must have received all appropriate medical care food, water etc in its life. But Muslims find that too inconvenient to keep up with their meat heavy diets, so they've simplified this to you just have to say "in the name of God" before eating it, even if it's from McDonalds.

Yesterday I brought this up and said even disbelievers are having more compassion for animals than we are and no one said a word. Yet, here it is in the Satanic temple! And I believe they actually live by it too. Good for them. Hopefully they can teach the "beleiveing" people a thing or two.

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SendAstronomy t1_isfj1e8 wrote

TST more "libertatian" than Libertarians. But also more liberal than liberals.

At one point there were atheist libertarians in the USA, but when it became the "fuck you got mine" party for 2a chriatian right wingers; they ruined that term.

At one point libertarian meant paying your taxes to help everyone. That ended decades ago.

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