We've been doing weekly streaming Friday evenings over on Twitch, usually from 8 p.m. Pacific for a couple hours.
Come by and say hello, learn a little bit about what we're up to, and ask us any of those burning questions you've been meaning to get to.
Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in ̷f̷e̷d̷e̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷c̷o̷u̷r̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷w̷ King County Superior Court.
TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, the Temple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the profile link for more.
Cross-stitch by Lia Taylor, aka @crucifix.vi on Instagram.
“The Satanic Temple doesn't care about people. Now I will probably get sued.”(Cotton on vintage linen, 2023)
“Your friendly reminder that The Satanic Temple is really not that great of an organization. They talk about freedom of speech, but they continue to sue ex members @queersatanic for speaking against them and their practices. Don't trust organizations that aren't transparent. Support organizations that are fully committed to helping people, as opposed to groups like The Satanic Temple that appropriate the occult. They speak out against organized religion but they're not solving any of the problems they claim. Even promising to open abortion clinics so they can perform rituals is.. ... aggressively fucked up? It's just another way of using peoples' bodies to further one's cause.”
For those who like to beat a dead horse: Here is Lucien Greaves, yet again but most recently, acknowledging, apologizing for and addressing those same things TST haters claim have never been acknowledged, apologized for and addressed.
Hey so me and my siblings just realized that we were baptized as kids and we aren’t religious anymore so is there a way to undo that (after a quick google search it says it can’t be undone but I wanted to check) I’ll trade you my Bigfoot sticker for your knowledge
THE LAW OF REVERSAL: That which is done by magic may be undone by magic.
Let's be real here, you can just renounce your baptism. That should be fine, and I'm sure god would understand. But baptism is a whole ritual, and you might want a counter-ritual for it to feel complete.
I'll ping @queersatanic I'm sure they can rustle up someone who can whip you up a Renunciation of Baptism type deal.
Does anyone rememeber Jennifer Mezzetta, a.k.a. Jennifer Crepuscolo? She's the leader of a Theistic Satanist group called the Union of Italian Satanists, who Vice News wrote an interview article about back in January.
That article overlooked a very significant detail: the fact that their group contains several endorsements of Nazi ideology, and even contains some praise (alongside some criticism) for Nazi Satanist groups such as Joy of Satan and the Order of Nine Angles. @queersatanic wrote a thread on the subject on Twitter, and then I decided to write an article documenting as much as I could.
This got discovered by Jennifer herself, who then sent me a Facebook message basically accusing me of slandering them, and then claimed that she was planning to sue me.
And then of course I wrote a fresh response to that entire farce, even though it was extremely unlikely that she and her band of Nazi chucklefucks were ever going to pose any threat to me.
But why am I talking about this again? Because last night someone sent me evidence over Facebook that Jennifer admitted to someone, in private conversation (apparently someone she betrayed), that she aligns with the ideology of National Socialism (Nazism), along with the Right in general. Below are a series of receipts that are to be credited to a man named "Gundisalvus".
You might have to squint though, since they are somewhat difficult to read.
Here's a Google Translate of what Jennifer said just in case:
I am also informed that Jennifer has an admin team consisting of racist cyberbullies who, at one point, pushed a girl to suicide, and that Jennifer had a relationship with a man named Mandy Lord (one of the authors at the USI website; real name Giuseppe Crocchiolo) for seven years, lied about it in front of other people, and then the two of them violently broke up over a migrant. Her friend Paola is also said to have made false accusations against a migrant centre which that migrant was staying at, so you can bet that entire clique is just brazenly racist.
I remain confident that Jennifer never had any case against me before. But if she ever pressed on, I don't think it would take long for someone to see these screenshots and see Jennifer for the lying Nazi that she really is. I would thus renew my indignation against Vice News for writing their article about the Union of Italian Satanists while failing make any mention of their affilitation with Nazism and esoteric fascism.
Queersatanic has said some iffy things in the past so I wasn’t surprised to see them being antisemitic and spreading ahistorical nonsense on @didyoumeanxianity post but I did want to add that they used Ashkenazi to mean white Jews and that is just not how it works. There are lots of Jews of color who are Ashkenazi. Then there are Ashkenazi Jews who aren’t bipoc but don’t look enough like white goyim.
My father has never looked white enough and has had racism thrown at him. He immigrated to America and so as a kid he didn’t speak English. His family spoke with heavy accents and also didn’t look white enough. As he lived in California he mostly got mistaken for Latino by bigoted idiots. Though he also faced antisemitism as well because bigots could tell he was Jewish. So no besides everything wrong queersatanic said white Jews do sometimes still experience racialized antisemitism
That satanist group that runs the grey faction is also run by a bigot who started said satanist group to make money, disguising it as a more liberal version of the cos, and actively tries to silence those who call them out on it. Queer Satanic has a lot of information about them, and they're being hit with a SLAAP case by tst. To be clear it's not the satanism itself, but the organized group that's bad.
Thanks for this addition! Truly awful stuff!
For anyone wanting to learn more about the Satanic Temple's stances on DID, I found this after looking up @queersatanic
I'm not super confident here but I've seen Jewish people mentioning how satanists and pagans worshiping lilith is cultural appropriation. (I'm pagan and support satanists if they aren't being fascists so I don't really have a biased against them for context.) Also with how much the satanic temple is going around despite being a fascist group this seems like a huge red flag for antisemetism to me and investigating did not ease any of that. Make of this what you will but i wanted to give you a headsup i guess
interesting. looking more into it i could see how that could be the case. i’m only familiar with her through christian mythology, where i thought she’d originated, and i think that’s where pagans and satanists are coming from. but that doesn’t mean it isn’t problematic. it looks like there are at least some jewish writers who have also reclaimed her as a feminist icon. maybe others here can speak better on the subject.
i can tell you that satanism is not inherently problematic. there have been some bad groups, but that’s what happens when you take a spiritual practice based on rejecting hierarchical organized religion and make a hierarchical organized religion out of it. @queersatanic knows more about the temples and such.
QS has publicly dead named and misgendered former members, they have doxxed and made false call outs of countless Satanists (putting them at risk), and they associate freely with Church of Satan assholes (frequently alt right and neonazis).
Also, they are by their own admission, not Satanists and never were "really into that cringe".
So I don't trust a damned word they say.
Besides I really don't care much about TST either. Lucien Greaves is just a dude with a blog imo.
An excellent question! One that is quite difficult to answer, really.
Satanism, in my eyes, is a category of religion and spirituality, centered around the figure of Lucifer/Satan/the Devil, or another, similar figure - be it another figure from Abrahamic tradition, such as Azazel or (somewhat controversially, due to Jewish claims of cultural appropriation), Lilith, or be it a figure from a polytheistic pantheon which has archetypal similarities to the Satanic archetype, such as Set, Loki, Prometheus, Pan or even Quetzalcoatl. Followers of such deities in the latter case are not necessarily Satanic, but they can be, and these deities can be approached and analyzed through a Satanic lens.
Satanism comes in a myriad of varieties. To start things off, there is theistic Satanism, in which these Satanic entities (for theistic Satanists often venerate more than just the Devil, instead turning to other demons or deities as well) are seen as actual beings, able to be communed with. Often, they are seen as guides and mentors to be turned to for advise, and to be given respect, but not blind worship and adoration as one would do with a deity in most contexts, but this varies from case to case, with various practitioners holding different perspectives on this, and with it often varying from entity to entity as well. Theistic Satanists are often independent, individual practitioners, organizing with others from time to time to exchange ideas and perspectives, but otherwise not involved in an organized, religious structure. Their practice is typically deeply occult-oriented, with the practice of magic being a key component of their Satanism.
Then, there is also atheistic Satanism. These individuals view Satan as an archetype and symbol, not as an actual entity. While they may practice magic and engage in occultism, this isn't always the case either. They are more likely to organize into official religious groups than theistic Satanists tend to be, and the two most famous Satanic organizations - namely, Anton LaVey's "Church of Satan", and Lucien Greaves "The Satanic Temple", fall into this category. While TST portrays itself as socially progressive, in contrast to CoS's more right-wing 'libertarian' leanings and claims of being apolitical, they in fact have plenty of skeletons in their closet, and fall into many of the same trappings that most if not all organized religions do. @queersatanic are the ideal people to turn to if you want to know more about the many messed up things TST has gotten up to over the years.
Despite claims made by the Church of Satan to the contrary, there is no centralized, "official", Satanic doctrine. In my eyes, all these interpretations of the Satanic are valid in their own way, and I reject the idea of there being an official dogma within Satanism. It is, and ought to be, a "find your own path"- kind of faith.
That said: There are also some "Satanic" groups that step beyond the acceptable. For example, "Joy of Satan" is a neo-nazi group, preaching antisemitism and white supremacy, and using the veneer of Satanism to draw in a new audience for their hatred. I would not consider them to be a genuine form of Satanism, due to the fact that I strongly suspect their "satanism" is in fact pure opportunism for the most part, instead of rooted in any actual convictions.
In addition, in my eyes, Satanism as a faith is deeply rooted in the ideal of justified rebellion against unjustified authority. Given how fascism is the polar opposite of this, any Satanism which gives room to fascism is fundamentally at odds with my personal interpretation of the Satanic. I myself, personally, view Lucifer as the ur-anarchist, and by this point must confess to myself that I view him and other Satanic figures primarily as archetypes and symbols, not actual entities.
... And thus concludes my overly long ramble. I hope that answers the question?
uh, it is probably too late for anybody who actually wants to get something in by December 25th, but if you want a way to show people you are a satanic antifascist and/or support QueerSatanic in our ongoing legal defense from The Satanic Temple to close out the year, check out our online store
We also have flags and stickers available to order from our website, if you don't mind emailing us directly.
Or you could toss some cheese our way just to be kind
Hi omg what @queersatanic I’ve followed your Facebook pages for a long long time and love everything you do. Thanks so much for the follow back! Hail Satan!
Do you know any good/interesting books about Satanism that isn’t LaVey? Particularly theistic Satanism if possible. I’ve read LaVey’s Satanic Bible already and want to branch out.
also bad, for similar reasons. here's a link to a page by queersatanic, a group of former temple members that splintered off from the satanic temple due to objecting to the satanic temple's right-wing connections, general uselessness as an "activist" group for most of the causes it claims to champion, and shady finances, which goes into some detail about the whole affair [link]