If you could create a new religion, what would you include to make it wholesome, interesting and helpful for the world? (infosec.pub)

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[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I would suggest that you reconsider TST in light of recent actions. At the very least, look into all of the people that have been summarily kicked out solely by Doug Mesner AKA Lucien Greaves, been stripped of their ministerial titles, and how many chapters/congregations have separated from the org. If you use Reddit at all, you can find some of it there. I'm friends on Facebook with some of the higher-up people that either left or were kicked out, and... It ain't pretty.

The long and short of it is that Doug Mesner and Cevin Soling (AKA Malcom Jarry) entirely own all of the intellectual property that is The Satanic Temple, and so they have complete control over everything that goes on. It's fundamentally authoritarian, even though they officially espouse more anarchistic, freedom-loving principles. The most recent schism is because Doug is exercising his authoritarian tendencies and throwing people out that disagree with him.

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I appreciate the heads-up. I'm actually a Buddhist, so not really looking for a new religion. I mostly admire the work TST has done for religious pluralism.

I watched Hail Satan? They went into some of the schisms in the TST, but it was framed as the chapter head not following the principles and damaging TST's overall goals (encouraging people to kill Trump). Are there other examples? I'm curious, but not curious enough to go on reddit.

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