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A week after The Satanic Temple (TST) came under attack by an unknown assailant who threw an ‘explosive device’ onto the porch of their headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, causing minor damage to the building and prompting the FBI to investigate, an arrest has been made. According to the Department of Justice website: Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Okla., was charged in a criminal complaint with using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce. ..At approximately 4:14 a.m. on April 8, 2024, surveillance cameras outside TST captured a man walking towards TST wearing...

<p>SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Someone threw an explosive device onto the porch of The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts at a time when no one was inside, and the device and damage it caused were not found until nearly 12 hours later, police said. No injuries were reported.</p>

A stunning 19th-century Seattle mansion, sold for $6 million, is set to be torn down because its last owners were the Moonies - members of the Unification Church. Nestled on the shores of Lake Washington, the three-story Spanish Mission revival mansion was once home to the family of early pioneers of Seattle, including Rolland Denny, the son of the city's founder, Arthur Denny. Later in the 1970s, it was purchased by the Unification Church when the religion was still in its infancy and served as a domicile for founders Sun Myung Moon, his wife, and their followers. Leonard Garfield, the...

The University of Houston has cancelled its plans for a ceremony to honor a controversial satanic abortion idol following a public outcry. But the college is still displaying the pro-abortion statue on campus As LifeNews reported, according to Texas Right to Life, the university plans to publicly display a statue called “Witness,” which the pro-life group described as “an 18-foot tall naked female figure with braids shaped like goat horns and arms like tentacles.” The bronze statue also wears a lace collar in imitation of Ginsburg’s recognizable style. The university will display the statue from February 28 to October 31,...

A pro-life group is calling on a Texas university to cancel its plans to put up a statue it deems “satanic” and an “idol” to abortion. The pro-life organization Texas Right to Life unveiled a petition last week asking the University of Houston to “keep the satanic abortion idol out of Texas.” The petition comes as the school’s Public Art Program is set to display an 18-foot-tall statue called “Witness” in the Cullen Family Plaza from Feb. 28 through the end of October. Texas Right to Life has denounced “Witness” as a “golden statue with satanic imagery to honor abortion...

The Idaho Attorney General’s office announced on February 2 that a district court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Satanic Temple against the state’s Defense of Life Act, which protects nearly all preborn children in the state from abortion. In its 2022 lawsuit, The Satanic Temple claimed that Idaho’s pro-life law infringed on its members’ rights to participate in an abortion ritual. The Satanic Temple claims abortion is a religious rite, which consists of making affirmations in front of a mirror before and after the abortion procedure in a ritualistic manner. The organization has been a strong proponent of...

Stephan Stewart’s parents were in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, so to cope with the turmoil at home, she became entangled in a promiscuous lifestyle. She was just 15 years old when she went with a friend to Planned Parenthood to get birth control — and discovered she was pregnant. Stewart told Live Action News, “The services at Planned Parenthood were free except that I was required to pay for an ultrasound. I wondered how I was going to get the money to do this. I didn’t want to tell my parents I had gotten pregnant – I was...

I’m not in the habit of reading Cosmopolitan and I can’t honestly say that I regret my negligence. However, many women do; it is one of the biggest magazines in the United States, with an estimated readership of more than 32 million, both in print and on the web. It knows what interests young career women – sex, health, gossip and fashion, mostly. But the November-December issue promoted another interest – Satanism. It featured a “Cosmo special report” titled “The Satanic Abortion Clinic That’s Pissed Off Pretty Much Everyone…and Might Beat the Bans Anyway”. The focus of the article is...

Modern Technocracy and Trans-humanism are ideological products of the utopian notion that the world must be dominated and governed by the control of a “Pure Elect” or suffer the violent anarchy of the masses. There is Pure Election and pure depravity and nothing else. The only way out of this is to be detached, superior to the world and to others—to control them. (11) Thus, only.science and technology can fulfill the utopian dream of purifying the world of evil by perfecting society and engineering a New Man through application of technology and science. The scientific engineering of a new man...

A recent petition by the Satanic Temple of Iowa, under the guidelines of the Iowa legislature, allowed Satanists to place an idol of Baphomet, a winged, goat-headed, trans-human figure, on display in the vicinity of nativity displays on the first floor of the Iowa Capital. The display drew the ire of many Christians, who lamented the blasphemy of placing an idol in the capitol as a sign of the impending judgment of God upon the nation. Many conservative Republicans, while lamenting the statue as blasphemous, defended the existence of the display on the grounds of constitutional freedom of religious expression....

A new Pew Research Center in-depth report, “Spirituality Among Americans,” revealed that “7 in 10 U.S. adults describe themselves as spiritual in some way, including 22% who are spiritual but not religious.” The 95-page report released on Thursday found that: 83% of all U.S. adults believe people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical body. 81% say there is something spiritual beyond the natural world, even if we cannot see it. 74% say there are some things that science cannot possibly explain. 45% say they have had a sudden feeling of connection with something from beyond this...

The Satanic Temple has set up a display of a sparkling demonic ram's head in the Iowa Statehouse as an expression of 'religious freedom'. Alongside more traditional menorahs and Christmas trees, the group have erected an altar topped with candles, a large banner and a ram figure with a skull covered in mirrors, a red cloak and wreath. The Temple reportedly went through all of the correct administrative channels for the display, and only had their original request to use a real goat's skull denied. Founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, told KCCI: 'We're going to really relish the...

CV NEWS FEED // Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay denounced the inclusion of a Satanic Christmas tree in the National Railroad Museum’s Festival of Trees, calling it “offensive” and harmful to “the unity and joy that the Christmas season brings.” The bishop’s Tuesday press release came after the Satanic Temple of Wisconsin’s tree garnered national attention and Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher publicly opposed the display. “Allowing a traditional understanding of Christmas to be usurped and desecrated by an organization/cult is divisive during a time of the year that we come together in unity as a...

Cosmopolitan, often referred to as Cosmo, is an international fashion and lifestyle magazine for women. It covers a wide range of topics, including fashion, beauty, relationships, sex, health, and career advice. But Cosmo is also a radically leftist rag that has a long history of promoting abortion. And it’s latest promotional is way, way beyond the pale. On its Instagram, Cosmo is promoting a “satanic abortion” ritual to empower women getting abortions. Apparently killing babies somehow makes women’s lives better and makes them more powerful. Cosmo celebrates satanic “abortion ceremonies” and touts how they are customizable for women and gives...

Unfortunately this isn’t satire. A video is circulating on Twitter that features a TikTok user teaching viewers how to “practice abortion as a magical ritual.” The user who created the video lists “they’s” name as Valkyrja Vörðr and is supposedly a “witch.” “I am a witch who has had abortions and has used them as rituals,” she began. Supposedly abortion rituals are “birthing magic” and “death magic” at the same time. To make matters weirder the witch used the phrase “womb body” instead of woman. Unfortunately, this isn’t satire. A video is circulating on Twitter that features a TikTok user...

Religious holidays are all but illegal in 21st-century America. Those few that survive have been watered down beyond recognition. Thanksgiving, a day once solemnly set aside to thank God for our blessings as a nation, has morphed into Turkey Day, a day set aside to worship the guest of honor at dinner. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (Romans 1:25) Most Americans don’t gather to give thanks to God, they gather to eat and watch football. For millions, it is the...

CV NEWS FEED // A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a challenge to Indiana’s pro-life law which was filed by The Satanic Temple (TST). As reported by WISH-TV, TST “sued to force the state to allow it to provide mail-order drugs for its members in Indiana to have an abortion.” The satanist group “claimed Indiana’s new abortion law, passed in 2022, violated the state’s religious freedom law as well as the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.” TST is based in Massachusetts and operates a virtual “health clinic” that prescribes abortion-inducing drugs. The organization has named its “telehealth”...

The Unitarian Universalist Congregations (UUC) is the epitome of religious vagueness. A place where any belief is welcome, except, of course, the notion that absolute truth exists and that it can only be found in the one, true God’s revelation to us. They’ll claim it’s about “spiritual freedom,” but it’s really a religious free-for-all—and it’s always at the expense of biblical Christianity. In their quest for “radical inclusivity,” they’ve abandoned moral clarity for a hodgepodge of conflicting beliefs. It’s not a pillar of spiritual truth, it’s a perverse and licentious social club pretending to be a church. One of these...

In a world where boundaries and definitions are stretched to unrecognizable limits, a congregation of ex-Mormons has outdone itself in an unprecedented display of spiritual anarchy. Stepping far away from previously blasphemous Mormon roots, they’ve founded a “church” where their sacrament is not the bread and wine symbolizing Christ’s sacrifice, but psychedelic mushrooms. Yes, you read that correctly. They call themselves the “Divine Assembly,” trading in pews and hymnals for bean bags and trip guides. These spiritual “adventurers” claim they are communing directly with the divine while they’re tripping, but the only thing they are communing with is the surreal...

Pope Francis Quotes Buddha at Interreligious Event in MongoliaIn his speech, Pope Francis twice cited the Dhammapada, the most widely-read Buddhist text that is a collection of sayings of the Buddha.... "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind, the fragrance of those who live according to virtue spreads in all directions,’” the Pope said, quoting the Dhammapada.... In his speech, Pope Francis quoted another line attributed to the Buddha: “‘The wise man rejoices in giving, and by that alone does he become happy.”The Pope also cited the writings of Mahatma Gandhi on having “purity of...