{"id":2831,"date":"2024-05-17T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2024-05-17T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T03:00:38","slug":"the-satanic-temple-and-its-eternal-nobodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"The Satanic Temple and its Eternal Nobodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TST members and local groups begin another mass departure as Lucien Greaves clarifies once again that the \u201cfreedom to offend\u201d does not include him as a target<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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5\/31\/24: Article updated from original publish date as more information became available and more TST groups and prominent figures publicly exited the org.<\/em><\/em> Additional events after May 31 will not be updated here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting May 10, a long-simmering power struggle within Salem, Mass.-based “The Satanic Temple” spilled over into public, with each additional response from TST co-owner, co-founder, and primary national spokesperson Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko accelerating the departures of prominent figures in the org and even whole local groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re going to try to present as much information on this situation as possible and in-full for people to be able to reference for themselves. However, we have a point of view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Satanic Temple is an abusive business\/religious organization run by two thin-skinned authoritarian men who look at everyone else involved in their “religion” as interchangeable resources to be extracted so long as they are convenient and suppliant; people attracted to the idea of rebelling against tyranny (the way TST markets itself) tend to resist this dynamic when they realize that’s what’s happening, thus local groups and individuals are regularly breaking off or being expelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are allowed to come to other conclusions, but the purpose here is to try to make it easier for people to see for themselves what’s going on, the sort of cult-of-personality The Satanic Temple is cultivating, and that these frequent schisms are not necessarily a bug but a feature of how TST is set up and what it’s trying to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Doug Misicko a.k.a. “Lucien Greaves” tells you he’d rather have a handful of people personally loyal to him than a mass movement that has grown beyond him, there is no reason to try to pretend he is saying anything else than exactly what he is saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are someone who used to be in TST, and especially if you’re someone who used to be in leadership, you should speak up under your own name about how you’ve come to realize the Temple was not actually what it promised to be, or what you yourself may even have promised others it was. You have a responsibility as penance to be at least as loud denouncing it as you were endorsing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more of you who do so, the safer you’ll all be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, if you still don’t have that in you, at least pass whatever you can to admin@the.satanic.wiki<\/a> and create an account to add to The.Satanic.Wiki<\/a> proper so others can understand the history and how this all connects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TST will keep using people up, grifting people, and abusing people until they are stopped, and the only way to stop them is by being as loud about what they really are as TST has had people lying about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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