© Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Baphomet statue is seen in the conversion room at the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, on Oct. 8, 2019.
SatanCon 2023 will take place in downtown Boston April 28-30. Registered guests are required to wear masks and show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination, according to the organization.
"Attendees must wear an N-95, KN-95, or disposable surgical mask," the temple said on its site. "Gaiters, bandanas, and cloth masks will not be allowed."
The theme of the gathering in celebration of The Satanic Temple's 10-year anniversary is "Hexennacht in Boston," German for "Witches' Night," which marks the ancient pagan holiday of May Eve. The night was later changed to Walpurgisnacht to commemorate Walpurga, a Christian saint who evangelized Germany and was said to have exorcised demons from the sick.
SatanCon will include discussion panels, entertainment, satanic rituals, a satanic wedding chapel and a "satanic marketplace."
The Satanic Temple said it is dedicating the event to Wu "for her unconstitutional efforts to keep TST out of Boston's public spaces." The group filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the city after multiple requests to deliver a satanic invocation before a City Council meeting were denied.
The group also filed a request to raise a flag at Boston City Hall to commemorate "Satan Appreciation Week" in July 2021, but the city announced in October 2021 that it was no longer accepting applications to raise flags at the building.
In a similar move, The Satanic Temple dedicated its 2022 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, to former Republican Mayor Jim Lane and former Republican Councilor Suzanne Klapp, who also denied a request to invoke Satan at a City Council meeting.
TST denies belief in a personal devil, claiming its mission is "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits."
The Satanic Temple drew national attention in December for the firestorm that roiled Chesapeake, Virginia, when the organization applied to establish an After School Satan Club for kids at the local B.M. Williams Primary School.
Multiple parents involved with the controversy expressed their belief to Fox News Digital that since the temple started its club campaign in 2016, it has been targeting schools that sponsor Good News Clubs, a Christian after-school group, until school boards feel compelled to shut down after-school clubs altogether.
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Well! If that is truth, why would they wear masks, that are supposedly to prevent this evil.
What a confabulated ideology.
Multiple parents involved with the controversy expressed their belief to Fox News Digital that since the temple started its club campaign in 2016, it has been targeting schools that sponsor Good News Clubs, a Christian after-school group, until school boards feel compelled to shut down after-school clubs altogether. Multiple parents involved with the controversy expressed their belief to Fox News Digital that since the temple started its club campaign in 2016, it has been targeting schools that sponsor Good News Clubs, a Christian after-school group, until school boards feel compelled to shut down after-school clubs altogether.
Now that is more concerning. The words and definition of Mumbo Jumbo comes to mind.
This definition from Mirriam webster
1 : an object of superstitious homage and fear 2 a : a complicated often ritualistic observance with elaborate trappings b : complicated activity or language usually intended to obscure and confuse 3 : unnecessarily involved and incomprehensible language : gibberish 4 : language, behavior, or beliefs based on superstition
Not more left to say.
Everyone missed my little word play on "Baphomet" [Link] which was "Blaflatulent"
I'm almost tempted to attend just for sport.
... el chupacabra
one time on my parents farm i tried stuffing 20 goats into the box of my pickup, only got 19 in though, there just wasn't anymore ruminant.
what do you get when you mix goat DNA with human DNA ?
... kicked out of the zoo
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sooner you lot fkn die the better, bunch of sick fkn twisted child shaggin swapping inbred nazi sacks of shite!!
pedo pete and no doubt clintons an bush family be there also, hiding at the back..
comical evil..
Now we know.... Satan is behind the vax passports too for ease of mark 'o the beast administration and soul collection.
The Washington Post of all places announced the official declaration that this is no longer a pandemic of the unvaccinated as the majority of COVID-19 related deaths in America now occur among the fully vaccinated or boosted according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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In Satanic Ritual abuse children are tortured, sacrificed and mutilated. If you can handle it listen to some of the victims who weren't murdered.
To the bible thumpers in here... please do your research. This is no more a cult than your religion is. If you've ever spoken or listened to a true "satanist" and not some idiot that worships so made up demon, they don't worship, idolize or follow anything other than the desire to live as you want while doing no harm to others and was formed in direct opposition of the ridiculous and oppressive standards of the Catholic church.
There are some 'cults' that are rooted in more self-knowledge than others. The cult of psychiatrists who counsel rather than push drugs tend to understand a bit more about what makes people tick than a cult of plumbers. I submit that the cult of satanists are pretty confused about who they are and how the universe functions. They are in reaction against the idea of a meaningful world, but act as if that constitutes a meaningful orientation. They are in reaction against authority structures, but don't understand the cult nature of allopathic medicine and the authoritarian evil it now represents. Since there's not a whole lot that these people understand, but they want to turn ignorance into a sort of badge of honor, they are prone to appearing goofy, and are a source of general amusement.
The 'sovereignty of the individual' and 'treating others as you wish to be treated' only applies when people understand what it means to be human. These Satanist folks don't have a clue.
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