The Satanic Temple opened a second telehealth abortion facility to provide what it describes as religious abortion services, as the group believes that deliberately ending a pregnancy is part of a
Well ultimately I think it’s because the differences between the various Christian sects are very minor and trivial. At the end of the day any Christian church is going to agree on all the major points, they’ve just spent nearly 2000 years bikeshedding the unimportant details. In contrast the various “satanic” churches are very different organizations. I think a better comparison would be if for instance Hubbard had decided to call his scam religion Christianology instead, and then you’d see little notes popping up all over the place that say “The church of X is not affiliated with Christianology”. The closest to that that has actually happened is with the Mormon church, but since that doesn’t have Christ or Christian in the name anywhere the difference is obvious.
Another important factor is that TST is actually attempting to promote itself and the beneficial work it does so it cares about its image. Not being associated with CoS and its checkered past is important to cut off some of the drama that could be stirred up by people conflating the two even if CoS is largely defunct now.
Quick point of clarification, the official name of the Mormon church is, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” They don’t actually want to be called Mormons, and instead ask to be called LDS for short. Also, they consider themselves a protestant sect.
All that said, the Mormons are bad and nobody should join them.
So that church that I heard was using its non-profit status to create an untaxable 32 billion dollar investment portfolio that got exposed for using 13 shell companies to hide the holdings from the public was a Mormon one! Who could have guessed!
Well ultimately I think it’s because the differences between the various Christian sects are very minor and trivial. At the end of the day any Christian church is going to agree on all the major points, they’ve just spent nearly 2000 years bikeshedding the unimportant details. In contrast the various “satanic” churches are very different organizations. I think a better comparison would be if for instance Hubbard had decided to call his scam religion Christianology instead, and then you’d see little notes popping up all over the place that say “The church of X is not affiliated with Christianology”. The closest to that that has actually happened is with the Mormon church, but since that doesn’t have Christ or Christian in the name anywhere the difference is obvious.
Another important factor is that TST is actually attempting to promote itself and the beneficial work it does so it cares about its image. Not being associated with CoS and its checkered past is important to cut off some of the drama that could be stirred up by people conflating the two even if CoS is largely defunct now.
Quick point of clarification, the official name of the Mormon church is, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” They don’t actually want to be called Mormons, and instead ask to be called LDS for short. Also, they consider themselves a protestant sect.
All that said, the Mormons are bad and nobody should join them.
OOH
So that church that I heard was using its non-profit status to create an untaxable 32 billion dollar investment portfolio that got exposed for using 13 shell companies to hide the holdings from the public was a Mormon one! Who could have guessed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Securities_and_Exchange_Commission_charges_against_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_and_Ensign_Peak_Advisors