#2 reason I stopped short of embracing it. #1 was "religion is not my thing". #3 was that I am considerate to the point that I will often put myself somewhere between second and last. No sense of self preservation. Very un- Satanic.

It's really sad how that's true in this country. When Christians are busy calling the Pope a Communist for daring to raise questions about the relationship between 1st world economies and the status of the global poor.

just a head's up: these guys are not the Church Of SAtan. In fact, the original CoS thinks these guys are obnoxious trolls. http://www.cbs58.com/news/top-stori…

LaVeyan Satanism is the only kind of libertarian/Objectivist philosophy I can respect, because it's honest about itself.

The Satanic Temple is not affiliated with LeVeyanism and does not have a doctrine of selfishness.

I'm a minister, and on this particular issue, my views fall more in line with the Satanic Temple than with the Supreme Court ruling.

If you read the story in Genesis of the tree of knowledge with an objective eye, it becomes abundantly clear that the guy trying to provide knowledge (the serpent) is the hero, and the guy trying to suppress it (god) is the villain.

One of my faves...

Good old Satanists! You can always count on them to call out the Xtian bullshit for the circus-act that it is.

Satanism is by no means a blooddripping horrorshow confined to the woods on full moon thursdays. I personally find it somewhat nefarious, but only because it's philosophy of selfishness above all is inspired by Ayn Rand's Objectivism which is about as far removed from my socialist beliefs as can be. Satanism actually…

Kind of rough that my father is a minister, but my sincerely held beliefs are now more closely in line with that of The Satanic Temple.

Seriously considering joining the Church of Satan right now.

Satanism. The compassionate version of Christianity. I love it.

Owen Wilson's character is very much a Woody surrogate, with his intellectual pursuits, his unrelenting nostalgia, and his interactions with modern day people marking him as The Smartest Person In The Room, but Marion Cottilard isn't a decade younger than him which makes all the difference.

And his uncle is the recently departed actor Eli Wallach!

Scathing? I dunno, more like disappointed. His like of other Allen films like Zelig or Broadway Danny Rose softens the blows somewhat. Now, for scathing, you want Dwight MacDonald, the reviewer for Esquire from the 60s. I wish I could find the text for his treatment of The Greatest Story Ever Told, which goes on for…

In Woody's case it's hard to. The male leads are always a version of him, whether he's playing them or, more recently, outsourcing the neurotic questioner role to another actor. Equally as often, romantic leads have age differences erring towards the girl being younger. The last movie of his that I could separate him…

And his mother is a well-known academic who specializes in French history through the lens of gender! (Joan Wallach Scott)