"Blackmore, for her part, criticized the organization’s lack of diversity, charging in a recent interview with Jezebel that “we’ve again seen an organization consolidate power into the hands of a group of men or people who support and act as a mouthpiece for those men.” She went on to point out that Satanism has long been vulnerable to being co-opted by white supremacists."

that's what happens when you live your life around 2000 year old myths and fairy tales

Almost is if this were typical human behavior.

Almost as if you were sick the day they went over science in science class.

Take those, for example, who would try to logic their way to a declarative statement vis-a-vis human nature.

You excerpted right over it.

Or was she making a point?

We know that sexism and misogyny is quite prevalent among some "leaders" in the new atheist crowd.

"Prominent" who are racist and sexist.

That said, they don't lead much of a crowd and they are not my leaders. I don't support what they say, I don't excuse what they say and I certainly don't "tithe" to them.

I oppose them with just as much passion as I do the institutions of Religion. However, the important point is that they have minuscule clout compared to say... The Roman Catholic Church. Which seems to be built on foundations of sexism and misogyny.

But to the larger point, while it sounds too obvious, humans do tend to behave fairly predictably.

FFS, gil. I know you're committed to your narrative but can we at least agree threats of murder are bad?

And why ask us? As far as I know, nobody who posts here has anything whatever to do with the TST.

She sounds like a garden variety nutcase to me, based on the stuff in that article you didn't bother to include in your excerpt.

I don't know her. I don't know any of the people mentioned in the article. I'm an atheist. I don't think Satan exists any more than any other supernatural entity. Go ask those people your questions.

guillaumeb wants to goad someone into saying "of course Satan didn't make them into white supremacists," so that he can pull out his "A-HA!" card and "prove" that religion never motivates anyone to do bad things.

It's disingenuous and deceitful, because there are specific verses in the Christian bible that Christian white supremacists base their beliefs on. guillaumeb doesn't want to talk about that, though.

There are plenty of those to go around, I suppose. Apparently, our mutual antagonist thinks we are also a troll group.

I won't have it. I can't comment on TST. I know nothing about it, nor have I ever met anyone associated with it. It appears to be some sort of ultra-fringe political group of some kind with a message nobody cares about.

Monsieur B seems bent on associating us with every wackadoo group out there. Nope. I won't have it.

On the other hand, he is associated with "theism" and "the Creator" and stuff. He won't say what he actually believes, though, so his comments and excerpts have no center and are too vague to argue about.

C'est pour rire.

I made several statements.

Only the ending.

and the TOS of DU, require a short excerpt.

4.

We're not individual discrete human beings at all. We're a homogeneous mass, with one common hive mind, like the Borg. If one atheist says a thing, then he appears to believe that all atheists must agree.

When Satanists start pressuring lawmakers into passing draconian legislation robbing women of their bodily autonomy, I'll take note.

Mind the beam in your own eye.

Which is a seed.

to identify with satanism, fetishizing it.

Perhaps they see this as the ultimate in whiteness.