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Not to be confused with the Church of Satan.
The Satanic Temple is way better.
Just putting it out there for anyone who doesn't know.
Can you please elaborate? I hear this a lot but mostly from people who know little to nothing about CoS. They just read that comparison chart that TST threw together with hard bias.
My understanding, though it may be totally wrong, is TST is atheist and TCoS is theist. Everything else derives from that. TST is humanist.
TCoS supposedly isn't all that active except for their admittedly amusing Twitter. They also seem anti fun and stuffy whereas TST pushes "Satanism" as tongue in cheek social activism.
Both are atheist, tho if memory serves TCoS has rituals and associations with "magick" and the occult in the past
From their webpages, I would think they use the acronym CoS, and not TCoS. I was wondering if web searches were deliberately not showing relevant results.
my dumb ass keeps reading it as "Circle Of Steel" and wondering what any of this has to do with Fallout
CoS is 100% atheist and always has been. The "magick" people reference is mostly mentally manifesting your hopes and dreams to come true. There's no supernatural anything involved.
So, “law of attraction” type bs?
Like, "Man, I really hope I get that raise. Let me think about it really hard and focus on how to earn it," type bs.
Yeah that's "the secret" law of attraction junk
Do you think that’s how people get raises? By thinking about it really hard and focusing on how to earn it? And not, you know, by jumping ship and moving to another company where you can earn a 40% raise?
I'm sure brainstorming about how to earn more money would provide a few different options, yes. Expecting a raise to just miraculously appear certainly isn't the way to go. It's not like just thinking about getting a raise will make it happen. It's about setting it as your prime directive and thinking about HOW to make it happen. Your destiny is your own hands.
your destiny is in *your employers hands.
ftfy
I just don’t want people going around thinking that they are the reason their boss didn’t want to pay them what they are worth, you know. It’s a trick employers do to try to put the onus on the employee, not on the employer who is responsible for paying a competitive salary. Information is power!
Or just a good way of triggering those damn pearl-clutchers. 🤣