Story here. I’ve supported them for awhile, and I hope they continue to do good work. The world needs more people pushing back against overbearing religious authority. Maybe I’ll go to the next one.
I support them as well. No doubt it would have been a good time, but I don’t foresee my husband ever going to such a thing. Not even to get his picture taken with Baphomet. 
Hail Santa!
The thing is, they symbolically reject religious rites via… their own religious rites. They may be pushing back against overbearing religious authority, but they seem 100% Christian themselves, not quite the same as the Temple of Reason.
My mother has been calling me to check that these satanists haven’t abducted my daughter. I’m not joking. It’s a testament to the social media and streaming algorithms that are feeding her propaganda that convinced her that the convention 30 miles from our house has brought child sex abuse practitioners to Greater Boston who are ravaging the countryside.
Yeesh. That’s disturbing. Not surprising, but disturbing.
I didn’t go, but it would have been interesting. Maybe. I follow the local chapter on FB and would actually attend functions… but that would require meeting people and forming and maintaining relationships. So, so far just lurking/FB stalking.
No, they’re mostly atheist.
There’s a practical reason for this. They need to be recognized as a religion to accomplish their political objectives. But that means having some of the trappings of religion. Every time someone puts up a monument to the ten commandments in some public venue, The Satanic Temple comes in and says that for equal representation, they want to install a monument to Baphomet. No one actually worships Baphomet, but when the authorities inevitably refuse to install the sculpture, it gives The Satanic Temple standing to sue over the ten commandments.