Satanic Temple Wins IRS Rccognition as a Tax Exempt Church

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

They don't actually believe in Satan!

 

[BULLDOG]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

If you want to be pissed off, you can be pissed off. Nobody controls that but you. Hail Satan!! And lets hear it for satin, a lovely cloth.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

We are pleased to announce that for the first time in history, a satanic organization has been recognized by the United States federal government as being a church. The Satanic Temple recently received notice from the IRS affirming our status. This acknowledgement will help make sure the Satanic Temple has the same access to public spaces as other religious organizations, affirm our standing in court when battling religious discrimination and enable us to apply for faith-based government grants.

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

In a statement, Lucien Greaves, co-founder The Satanic Temple, explains why the group sought out tax-exempt status:

In light of theocratic assaults upon the Separation of Church and State in the legislative effort to establish a codified place of privilege for one religious viewpoint, we feel that accepting religious tax exemption — rather than renouncing in protest — can help us to better assert our claims to equal access and exemption while laying to rest any suspicion that we don’t meet the qualifications of a true religious organization. Satanism is here to stay.

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

For the record, the Satanic Temple does not promote the worship of Satan, or any other imaginary deity. Instead, the group utilizes satanic imagery to promote egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state.

The Satanic Temple is a faith community that describes itself as facilitating “the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists, secularists, and advocates for individual liberty.”

In such evinced, overt ignorance is exactly where evil grows strongest. Sure, laugh it up, go all in with the rest who condemn and mock Christianity as a worn out, cobwebbed over, has-been fairytale. Doing precisely that is the sole manner in which fools can comfort themselves into believing there is no need for personal moral accountability and responsibility. Bathe merrily in your warm seas of moral relativism and moral nihilism. Just do the rest of us the solid of keeping that slow decay into anti-civilization between those cults and the slime they covet.

Sounds like you are another one who knows nothing about the group . Nihilism? Anti Civilization? Evil?? I don't think so.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

More about the Satanic Temple for anyone who wants to learn something and not just troll me:

The Satanic Temple - Wikipedia

The Satanic Temple is a nontheistic religious and political activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4] The Temple is recognized as a church for the purposes of tax exemption,[5] with chapters in 13 states and Canada.[6] The group uses Satanic imagery to promote egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state. Their stated mission is "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people". The group was co-founded by Lucien Greaves, the organization's spokesperson, and Malcolm Jarry.[7] The Satanic Temple has utilized satire, theatrical ploys, humor, and direct legal action in their public campaigns to "generate attention and prompt people to reevaluate fears and perceptions", and to "highlight religious hypocrisy and encroachment on religious freedom".[8][9][10]

The organization actively participates in public affairs that have manifested in several public political actions and efforts at lobbying,[11][12] with a focus on the separation of church and state and using satire against Christian privilege that it says interferes with personal religious freedom. It considers marriage a religious sacrament that should be governed under the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty, and which should prevail over state laws.[13] Because the group regards inviolability of the body as a key doctrine, it also views all restrictions on abortion, including mandatory waiting periods, as an infringement on the rights of Satanists to practice their religion.[14] The Satanic Temple does not believe in a supernatural Satan. The Temple uses the literary Satan as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity.[7] Satan is thus used as a symbol representing "the eternal rebel" against arbitrary authority and social norms.[15][16]

 

[martybegan]

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

They don't actually believe in Satan!

All the more evidence they are doing this just to be assholes.

It's more about insulting other's faith than their own.

 

[martybegan]

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

If you want to be pissed off, you can be pissed off. Nobody controls that but you. Hail Satan!! And lets hear it for satin, a lovely cloth.

Can you even admit they are doing this just to be jerks to religious people?

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

We are pleased to announce that for the first time in history, a satanic organization has been recognized by the United States federal government as being a church. The Satanic Temple recently received notice from the IRS affirming our status. This acknowledgement will help make sure the Satanic Temple has the same access to public spaces as other religious organizations, affirm our standing in court when battling religious discrimination and enable us to apply for faith-based government grants.

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

In a statement, Lucien Greaves, co-founder The Satanic Temple, explains why the group sought out tax-exempt status:

In light of theocratic assaults upon the Separation of Church and State in the legislative effort to establish a codified place of privilege for one religious viewpoint, we feel that accepting religious tax exemption — rather than renouncing in protest — can help us to better assert our claims to equal access and exemption while laying to rest any suspicion that we don’t meet the qualifications of a true religious organization. Satanism is here to stay.

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satan

For the record, the Satanic Temple does not promote the worship of Satan, or any other imaginary deity. Instead, the group utilizes satanic imagery to promote egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state.

The Satanic Temple is a faith community that describes itself as facilitating “the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists, secularists, and advocates for individual liberty.”

It is a Religion which mean they should have the same rights of any other religious establishment.

 

[martybegan]

More about the Satanic Temple for anyone who wants to learn something and not just troll me:

The Satanic Temple - Wikipedia

The Satanic Temple is a nontheistic religious and political activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4] The Temple is recognized as a church for the purposes of tax exemption,[5] with chapters in 13 states and Canada.[6] The group uses Satanic imagery to promote egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state. Their stated mission is "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people". The group was co-founded by Lucien Greaves, the organization's spokesperson, and Malcolm Jarry.[7] The Satanic Temple has utilized satire, theatrical ploys, humor, and direct legal action in their public campaigns to "generate attention and prompt people to reevaluate fears and perceptions", and to "highlight religious hypocrisy and encroachment on religious freedom".[8][9][10]

The organization actively participates in public affairs that have manifested in several public political actions and efforts at lobbying,[11][12] with a focus on the separation of church and state and using satire against Christian privilege that it says interferes with personal religious freedom. It considers marriage a religious sacrament that should be governed under the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty, and which should prevail over state laws.[13] Because the group regards inviolability of the body as a key doctrine, it also views all restrictions on abortion, including mandatory waiting periods, as an infringement on the rights of Satanists to practice their religion.[14] The Satanic Temple does not believe in a supernatural Satan. The Temple uses the literary Satan as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity.[7] Satan is thus used as a symbol representing "the eternal rebel" against arbitrary authority and social norms.[15][16]

Yep, they are a bunch of assholes.

 

[caddo kid]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

So, you hate 'freedom of religion' and you hate the fact that some church you don't agree with is getting something (tax exempt status) that a church to your liking has been enjoying for decades.

You know what that says about you? You are an ass hole; a very immature ass hole at that.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

They don't actually believe in Satan!

All the more evidence they are doing this just to be assholes.

It's more about insulting other's faith than their own.

Oh please! You're the one being ass hole here. And a willfully ignorant one at that

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

We are pleased to announce that for the first time in history, a satanic organization has been recognized by the United States federal government as being a church. The Satanic Temple recently received notice from the IRS affirming our status. This acknowledgement will help make sure the Satanic Temple has the same access to public spaces as other religious organizations, affirm our standing in court when battling religious discrimination and enable us to apply for faith-based government grants.

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

In a statement, Lucien Greaves, co-founder The Satanic Temple, explains why the group sought out tax-exempt status:

In light of theocratic assaults upon the Separation of Church and State in the legislative effort to establish a codified place of privilege for one religious viewpoint, we feel that accepting religious tax exemption — rather than renouncing in protest — can help us to better assert our claims to equal access and exemption while laying to rest any suspicion that we don’t meet the qualifications of a true religious organization. Satanism is here to stay.

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

For the record, the Satanic Temple does not promote the worship of Satan, or any other imaginary deity. Instead, the group utilizes satanic imagery to promote egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state.

The Satanic Temple is a faith community that describes itself as facilitating “the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists, secularists, and advocates for individual liberty.”

In such evinced, overt ignorance is exactly where evil grows strongest. Sure, laugh it up, go all in with the rest who condemn and mock Christianity as a worn out, cobwebbed over, has-been fairytale. Doing precisely that is the sole manner in which fools can comfort themselves into believing there is no need for personal moral accountability and responsibility. Bathe merrily in your warm seas of moral relativism and moral nihilism. Just do the rest of us the solid of keeping that slow decay into anti-civilization between those cults and the slime they covet.

Idiotic nonsense.

No one is ‘mocking’ Christianity.

And affording a Satanic church the same tax breaks as other religions has nothing to do with ‘moral decay’ or ‘moral nihilism.’

Indeed, the decision is consistent with the First Amendment: that it is neither the role nor responsibility of government to determine what is or is not a ‘real’ religion in the eyes of the law.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Satanic Temple Wins Official IRS Recognition As Tax-Exempt Church

As announced by Church leaders:

It's a great day for religious freedom in America!

And by the way, before anyone has apoplexy, they do not believe in of worship Satin

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

Typical of most on the authoritarian right: frightened by diversity and dissent, seeking to compel conformity, attack anything perceived to be different or a ‘threat.’

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Funny, that's what I think about Christian displays.

 

[BULLDOG]

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

If you want to be pissed off, you can be pissed off. Nobody controls that but you. Hail Satan!! And lets hear it for satin, a lovely cloth.

Can you even admit they are doing this just to be jerks to religious people?

Exactly how is that being a jerk to religious people? If they demanded all kind of perks to the exclusion of other religious groups, like most main stream religions have done forever, then that would be being a jerk.

 

[martybegan]

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

So, you hate 'freedom of religion' and you hate the fact that some church you don't agree with is getting something (tax exempt status) that a church to your liking has been enjoying for decades.

You know what that says about you? You are an ass hole; a very immature ass hole at that.

I am calling them a bunch of assholes, who did this purely to try to mess with religious people.

Where did you get hate out of that?

Oh right, you are a progressive cum-bucket, who goes to calling out "hate" when you have no actual point to make.

**** off.

 

[martybegan]

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

They don't actually believe in Satan!

All the more evidence they are doing this just to be assholes.

It's more about insulting other's faith than their own.

Oh please! You're the one being ass hole here. And a willfully ignorant one at that

Nope. The whole process they went to was basically give them cover so they can harass religious people.

Christians mostly, because most people like this don't have the balls to confront muslims.

 

[martybegan]

So basically they are doing it just to be assholes?

They are doing it for the same reasons all religions do it. It gives extra privileges, and they can.

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

Typical of most on the authoritarian right: frightened by diversity and dissent, seeking to compel conformity, attack anything perceived to be different or a ‘threat.’

Worthless post from a worthless poster.

 

[martybegan]

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Funny, that's what I think about Christian displays.

That's what makes you such a special little snowflake.

 

[martybegan]

What extra privileges? You don't have to be a church to be tax exempt. You don't have to be a church to have the right to free expression?

This is about them wanting to be jackasses by forcing a satan display in any christmas display in a town square or such area.

Again, they want to be assholes.

If you call doing it for the exact same reasons that churches do the same as just being an asshole, then you are right.

When a manger is put up somewhere, it isn't to piss other people off. If these guys want to put satan pictures up at the same time, are you telling me it is because of their heartfelt belief in Satan, or is it just because they want to piss people off?

Don't be dense here.

If you want to be pissed off, you can be pissed off. Nobody controls that but you. Hail Satan!! And lets hear it for satin, a lovely cloth.

Can you even admit they are doing this just to be jerks to religious people?

Exactly how is that being a jerk to religious people? If they demanded all kind of perks to the exclusion of other religious groups, like most main stream religions have done forever, then that would be being a jerk.

They are going to do things like try to get a Satan Statue next to any Christmas display.

You don't see that as being assholes?

 

[ding]

Everything works itself out in the end.

Be careful for what you wish for.