'Tea party Satanist' bristles over Detroit temple's left-leaning ways

[rug]

Jex Blackmore, 32, a metro Detroit native and a University of Michigan graduate, is the lead person establishing a Satanic Temple in Detroit. She is photographed Sept. 4, 2014 in downtown Detroit. She explains the perspective of her beliefs of Satan and says, 'We do not subscribe to supernaturalism ... We use logic and rationality to understand our world.'

2:10 PM, September 15, 2014
By Robert Allen
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

A new Satanic religious group that debuted in Detroit this month already has encountered outspoken opposition: other Satanists.

The Rev. Tom Erik Raspotnik, 49, of Oxford decries the Satanic Temple’s atheism and progressive ideals. He said his Temples of Satan honors the deity of Satan, and he and others with him are pro-life and believe in animal sacrifices.

“I would be like a tea party Satanist,” Raspotnik said, adding that he has participated in tea party events, but that people at the events might not have known he worships Satan.

His group has about 200 members across the country, he said, and his Twitter handle has more than 17,000 followers.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140915/NEWS05/309150017/Tea-Party-Satanist-Detroit

1:31 video at link.

http://thesatanictempledetroit.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheSatanicTempleDetroit

[shenmue]

1. Uh

whut?

[rug]

2. Curioser and curioser.

But some of the loudest opposition to the Satanic Temple in metro Detroit has been from other Satanists. The Satanic underworld, like virtually all other religions, contains groups firmly in disagreement.

Even the Church of Satan, claiming thousands of members worldwide, is quick to distance itself from the Satanic Temple, despite agreement on atheism, individualism and affinity for pentagrams.

Whatever's going on. there are some good pics at the links.

[okasha]

4. "Very strangely, they say,"

to quote 1st. Gravedigger.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. Have to agree with the lady in the video.

It really does make no sense.

[xfundy]

5. My opinion

is that most Satanists worship Satan as faithfully as Repiglican officials worship Jesus. Much of it's just for show, much just to piss off the other side.

[cbayer]

6. Agree. Often they are more like Pastafarians than religious people.

[LeftishBrit]

7. I knew about the Christian Right, the Muslim Right, the Jewish Right...

but it hadn't occurred to me that there was also a Satanist Right.