These sayings by old age people's haven't affinity towards the exceptions rather than the rules the abnormalities in favor of the normal and I think that shows in the aesthetic. We like to see the bizarre in the obscure and hidden that is where you find the best starts.
News Headline-(64 Bridge Street in Salem an old Victorian house once the funeral home now the new headquarters for the satanic temple according to their website and nationally recognized religious and political groups.)
The satanic temples and nontheistic religious organization we renounce supernaturalism but we still feel that we are every bit as much a religious entity as any other religious entity and we fight for our deeply held values mean gender.
Satanic temples speech and oath-
"We are satanist engender moral spiritual and sexual freedom. Personal independence and insist upon personal choice in all things."
Art and Aesthetics is very important to modern satanism and I think that's due in no small part to us renouncing supernaturalism and viewing our religion as metaphorical construct it's a declaration of personal independence.
I use the tannin imagery in my work to talk about the imbalance of power within our country within gender within sexualities the attraction to Satan is one of the ultimate rebel the one that wants to work against order the authority to speak of your way of god. This is a humanoid typically go ahead and figure when I was a Christian this image was so jarring to me it was so complex with all that strange coded meanings behind the torch in the hands of the gestures on the phallus in the breasts and the hoods it becomes this dump of esoteric religious imagery onto this one image that shows us. The reconciliation of opposites the yen Yang. They piece behind me is the devil's Case this is what was reported that which is what have to do in order to show their allegiance to Satan. I very much love the dialogue of racialization of Satan throughout history he was given an aquiline nose to represent very systematic features and he was also given blue skin or black skin to represent that as well and so it was kind of Europe's interpretation of being anti semitic and also anti black the state is in modern incarnation is less of this biblical figure more of this like well we think this group of people are the devil. But in my world he has power. And so he's enjoying the hell out of it.
Bassinet sculpture was conceived on the satanic temple decided that we wanted to offer a satanic monuments to complement contrast a satanic monument that was placed on the capitol grounds in Oklahoma City
You have no problem with standing there next to your devil figure right.
That's correct so long is at multiple points of view are allowed in the thinking was if they were going to place a religious monument on government property the government needed to maintain viewpoint neutrality and they couldn't exclude another religious voice or preference and other otherwise it would most certainly be unconstitutional. We wanted something that would commemorate the victims of the many witch hunts that helped inform us of how to run a better secular legal system
Baphomet is this ultimate symbol of redemption which I see it as is this it's shows 3 balancing. Statue of the satanism monument renewing the debate over the separation of church and state despite efforts to keep it on capitol grounds the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional. Satanism will never be a religion that tries to lead people to believe that if they convert to this one single point of view that the world would be a better place because she doesn't miss the one religion that views that as a destructive frame of mind and we embrace the fact that we live in a world where there's multiple different points of view.
Theory of Lucien Greives (Co-founder of Satanic Temple)
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