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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.

Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.

“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.

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[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Growing up in a super religious family and watching all the nonsense up close is why I’m an atheist today. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE MOTHERFUCKERS

Hail Satan and donate to your local Satanic temple

[-] clanginator@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Also grew up in a super religious family (homeschooled pk) and joined TST 4 years ago.

IMO brainwashing children from the time they're born into a religion that spreads hate is wrong.

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Didn’t Satanic Temple have people in leadership who liked Richard Spencer?

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So there is The Satanic Temple which advocates for reproductive rights and separation of church and state and the Church of Satan which seems like some edgelord nihilistic thing.

But! I'm doing some googling and it seems that TSTs founder may be a Nazi. Like, an actual in love with Hitler Nazi. Reddit thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rabm/comments/ujw6w2/whats_everyones_take_on_the_tsts_lucien_greaves/

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m not talking about the Church of Satan. Greaves and other members who are higher ups in TST definitely rub me the wrong way politically. I would definitely like to see some of the stuff to verify that that post is taking about

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ya, I looked at several articles and Greaves seems very sketchy. Some of their chapters have broken off and a few of the top activists have distanced themselves from him. Sucks, I thought they were cool but the fact that their finances are closed and they try to host orgies for "real satanists"(wut) puts me off a lot.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Not that I could find with a quick search. I did find a "satanic forum" that seemed to be so populated by nazis that they were saying he wasn't enough of a nazi for them.

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t know, maybe I am remembering wrong

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