Long story short: an irrelevant member of an irrelevant Irish boyband popular some decades ago became a born again christian. He has made the news by claiming Taylor Swift is a Satanist who performs Satanic rituals at her gigs.
Differences of opinion on the quality of leadership TST offer mainly. I personally see their general members as good people, by and large, but their leaders as not so good people who do and say questionable things.
So for example TST is both a religion and also a business, meaning it has legal owners who have sole control over it. Their finances are totally opaque. With us, each Order, as long as it adheres to the six pillars, is its own thing. In the UK Order, for example, their is an elected Council. No Gods, no masters, no unaccountable owners :)
That makes a ton of sense. I had read (on that other site) that people in the UK and maybe Germany were having a hard time getting officially recognized as chapters, so I was curious.
I’m in TST but my activity is mostly limited to buying some merch now and again, and I support them because they rouse the rabble. I’m also a very poor fit for the LaVey group because I think Ayn Rand was full of shit. At least in the States, the ACLU, EFF, and FFRF do a better job at bringing lawsuits, but I just have to have some love for the group that tries to get public installations of Baphomet next to the Ten Commandments or a nativity scene.
I think there is a UK Chapter now. Not sure about Germany. There was a UK Chapter but they resigned in protest after Lucien invited a known transphobe to the Salem HQ which kicked off a lot of trouble for the leadership. A whole bunch of Chapters disaffiliated I think. Anyway, I saw a couple of weeks ago a new UK Chapter was announced.
I don’t (and I think I speak for the majority of GOS people) have an issue with the ideas underpinning TST, nor the general members, but their leadership makes it impossible to support them - for us anyway.
The causes we support always reflect the first two of our six Pillars - respect for the individual and their right to pursue their life as they see fit, without interference or judgement from others, as long as the individual extends the same to other people.
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