Excellent post, collex.

Not a No True Scotsman, in this case. Words have meanings, and no amount of wishing for the meaning to be something other than what it means makes it so. Here is a link to an essay written by Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan on the myth of the Satanic community: http://www.churchofsatan.com/my…

They both are. The difference is that the Church of Satan champions actual Satanism as codified by Anton Szandor LaVey in The Satanic Bible where as The Satanic Temple are not actually Satanists at all but more of a collection of liberal Humanists and Buddhists. TST stole the Church of Satan’s name and symbolism for…