Speak of the Devil
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In this book-length study of The Satanic Temple, Joseph Laycock, a scholar of new religious movements, contends that the emergence of "political Satanism" marks a significant moment in American religious history that will have a lasting impact on how Americans frame debates about religious freedom. Though the group gained attention for its strategic deployment of outrage, it claims to have developed beyond politics into a religious movement. Equal parts history and ethnography, Speak of the Devil demonstrates why religious Satanism is significant to larger conversations about the definition of religion, religious freedom, and religious tolerance.
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A history of how new kind of Satanism has started around 2012, the old one is also not what you would think tho.
Their type of protest against religious majorities abusing their numbers, and lack of religious freedom speaks to me. They portray themselves as the ultimate protestor, a symbol that few religious people would view as something worth discussing. The way I create art is very similar. I am glad that it's now possible to create such an anti-religion.
Satanism is not supernatural, it's newly founded, it's tenets speak of compassion and emphathy. This book takes you through organizations they established and discussions they created. Their way of doing things is radical and creative as an anti-religion they are capable of doing things in a way that nobody else can.
I think our modern world is missing values of these people, we are failing to listen and hear people without an audience. I hope this just the start of me reading about Satanism. They are the religious side of left-leaning politics, people who fight for lgbt, abortion rights, education, and more.
