• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    she has accused the Satanic Temple of making filings that “are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others.”

    I don’t think anyone in the Satanic Temple would disagree with that. That’s honestly a pretty good description.

    It’s basically a rite of the religion, to stir up trouble. To rile people up until they reveal their hypocrisy.

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      9 months ago

      The more positive spin version is that they test freedom of (and from) religion to ensure it is being applied broadly and not solely for Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism.

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      9 months ago

      i would add just a tiny bit more to that if i were her

      are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others which is in turn only meant to correct hypocrisy