God, Gods and Satan.

I know religion is taboo but I have some thoughts and nobody to talk to about them.. recently the Satanic Temple put up a holiday display in our capitol. It was destroyed by bigots who disagree with the display and religion. Someone came to fix it and the next day it was destroyed AGAIN. Our local news channel Facebook page posted about it and the comments…. whoooooo baby the comments… let me just say, there’s no hate like Christian love.

The comments were filled with Christians (my assumption) writing the most nasty hateful things, “the display is evil!! I’m glad it was destroyed!” — “It should never have been there in the first place!”— “if I saw it  I would have destroyed it too!”– “whoever put this up should be punished”– “Its evil! there’s only one god!”

So much hate for something other people believe in.. and so many people thinking the Satanic Temple worships Satan and demons and none of them even took the time to see what it was even about. They hear the word Satan and instantly are sent into a righteous rage and begin bashing anyone associated with it. These so called Christians who preach love thy neighbor and do one to others as you would have them do unto you. But if your Christian, that only applies to other Christians, if you don’t believe what they believe then they smite you and throw bible verses in your face. I find it funny because most people are already practicing the tenants of the Satanic Temple. Here are the tenants before anyone comes at me. I want you to read them and think hard about your life, would you say these are evil people? Maybe you unknowingly practice, would that be so bad?

I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

V Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

These tenants mirror the ten commandments in a way, sans the sky daddy overlord. I was raised Catholic Christian, i find the religion is more about fear and control where the Satanic Temple is more about just being a good person and empowering yourself.

Its odd how all (most) religions demand that their god is the one and only true god, how can any of them be right? Another reason why the Satanic Temple is attractive to me.. no mandatory god to fear and worship. Just good ole humanity.