As a Satanist, religious freedom is important because Satanism as a whole is a religion, a philosophy, and a lifestyle combined—some would even posit another species or breed entirely, but certainly psychologically alternate, which is why sometimes out kind have been referred to as “alien elite.” It is indeed marvelous NOT living in a theocratic environment wherein any particular religion holds absolute sway, even though they do try to interfere and interpolate their various agendas wherever and whenever they can, yet it is now fortunately altogether surmountable by utilizing the sovereign freedoms and intellectual tools provided by the Founding Hellfire […]
Church of Satan Celebrates Religious Freedom Day
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In 1992, the US Congress deemed January 16th as Religious Freedom Day in celebration of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom passed on January 16 of 1786. This act is a significant precursor of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
satanicplayerssociety.com Join the Satanic Players Society as they observe this years Religious Freedom Day. Members of the troupe narrate various points from the Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, written by James Madison
The First Amendment had set forth a standard to separate the church and state. The reason is out of respect of one another on any manner of belief or disbelief. Just because your religion may work for you, this is not so to all. I think Satanism is just about the only religion so far that acknowledges this because somehow, a religion cannot seem to exist without having followers – or so the world seems to think. It intrigues me how one person to make one’s own religion exist is not enough. I have no problem with other religions. Neither […]
On this Religious Freedom Day[1], I would like to remind everyone that—though we live in perhaps the best time in history for safely practicing any religion we choose and are generally free from political condemnation—there are still areas of the world where this basic freedom is denied or actively suppressed. On October 27th 1998, president Bill Clinton signed the International Religious Freedom Act[2] into law. This was passed as an effort to promote religious freedom as a foreign policy of the United States, and to advocate on the behalf of the individuals persecuted in foreign countries due to their religion. […]
Back in 2002 C.E., I happened to be online doing searches to see how my various projects and websites were doing in web searches. One search I did was for the phrase “Satanism in Hawaii.” I was immediately taken aback by what popped up: an excerpt from the Student Handbook of a local public high school. It listed several things as contraband, such as drug paraphernalia, clothing displaying profanity, and, to my bewilderment, Satanism! At the time, I was employed by Hawaii’s Department of Education, though not at the school this mandatory dress code was published for. Those who know […]
reverendcampbell.com On this Religious Freedom Day let us recall that our First Amendment to the Constitution of United States of America “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” was informed by Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom stating in part “That our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that […]
When I was on my way to work in Alexandria, Virginia on a sunny September day in 2001, I had never imagined that the plane flying over my car would strike the Pentagon. None of us could have imagined this scenario playing out the way that it did. It was an act of war, clearly; but who? Some bearded man half way across the world claimed responsibility for cutting all those lives short in the name of Al Qaeda, an organization most of us had never heard of at the time but few of us can say we haven’t heard […]
underworldamusements.net I believe that one of the great lessons I have learned is that it is just as important to know your weaknesses, as it is to know your strengths. In that, I have always felt writing was something that others have done far better than I, but putting their words into print is something I can do better than most. So I am a small publisher. It is my own form of necromancy. Since my passion is for forgotten, neglected, and sometimes intentionally buried and forgotten iconoclasts, I raise their spirits from the grave of forgotten. When asked to […]
oldnickmagazine.com As a proud Satanist, professional publisher and writer, sexologist and occult investigator who has recognized for more than four decades that the world’s most notorious and carnal religion is by far the most sane (and pleasurable) philosophical approach to life, it is with great joy that myself and Old Nick Magazine celebrate Religious Freedom Day! All free thinkers who follow their own paths should rejoice and recognize the precious American liberties we share in this, the greatest country on earth.