This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Now I'm imagining a split in the satanic church, that is an AI satanic church and a non-AI satanic church. AI Satan sounds pretty hellish if you ask me..
FWIW, The Satanic Temple is different from The Church of Satan and/or the Satanic Church. To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
AI Satan does sound horrendously hellish, though. "You're correct, and you are absolutely right to call me out on it! I can see now how submerging you in searing hot lye would be unpleasant, especially after you begged me to stop! Here, let me try again, this time paying extra attention to not submerging you in searing hot lye."
To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
Neither does the Church of Satan, to be fair.
I remember one is more of a political / atheist group and the other is more so what it says on the tin but I always mix them up. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that's a constant happening.
Oh goodness, what's that reference? Futurama?
Not quite. They're both Satanic churches. TST is more activist and fights for the rights of Satanists in court.
There's a good breakdown of the differences here.
This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel ANGRY!"
I want a Lucy Liu bot.
Maybe now I can get to know the real Lucy Liu
There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They're called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.
And then there's their offshoot, the Zizians, which are even crazier. The episodes of Behind the Bastards covering them were wild
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
tl;dr:
Maus is a Unitarian Universalist, a pluralistic religion that's rooted in the inherent worth of every person. In April, she argued that AI didn't align with her religious beliefs, citing environmental and ethical concerns.
Just so you know which religion to convert to.
I mean, hypothetically couldn't you just pick any belief structure outside of the top ten and make shit up? I'm a card carrying member of The Satanic Temple (which also puts an emphasis on human worth and social conscience) and I feel like I could swing this.
Wow, you actually got your card?
They made no promises, but I sent my $20, never saw my card and that's fine.
The goat ate it
I think you can literally purchase a membership card on their site if you want.
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I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.
On a tour of our state's gay friendly churches (a work project) I met a unitarian universalist minister who was openly atheist, his congregation had no problem with it. That was a very weird but cool convo.
My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.
The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.
It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.
I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.
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Guys I think I just found religion.
Join the Satanic Temple or some Humanist org or something. For some reason people lose their minds if your religion is just "none", but are at least more ok with it being something, even if the something had only one tenet and that was "none".
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I’m an atheist who joined a UU church (the religion being discussed in the article) this past January and I’ve loved it, I’m actually not at all surprised this sort of thing is coming out of UU
"I'm a Butlerian."
But did you type that on your thinking machine?
I’m pretty sure that in Dune, all computers are banned, not just AI. You can’t even have a ship with a navigation computer.
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I wonder if society will fracture into two groups, kinda like the Amish and the rest of us. There will now be people content with this level of technology and those who go on forward for better and worse. I can totally see it, entire towns where AI is banned.
I Imagine there will be yet another separation if there's a choice to upload your consciousness a bit like the show pantheon.
How about an atheist exemption?
You can be an atheist and a member of a universalist Unitarian church, I am exactly that
Would be nice if philosophical stances were treated equal to religious ones, so if something is against your philosophical stances you could get the same exemption a religious person could.
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I despise AI, however, religious exceptions for work are stupid.
Go to work for your church/mosque/temple if it's that important for you.
If you're a Christian, live like a bird in the field, like Jesus says. Go pick through the garbage can and be content in your righteousness. You're reward isn't earthly, but in Heaven, right?
Also it usually it's just ok for their approved religions, anything else you are being stubborn
I'm not religious but I feel like people should have a right to take their annual leave for their religious holidays, yeah?
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Are you guys trying to get religion banned?
It might help.
You say that like it's a bad thing
At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people
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How about a mental health exemption? AI is shown to be hazardous to mental health.
Trying to start a long, boring conversation about ethics has worked so far to keep people from forcing their slop machines on me, but it's nice to know there are options
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“You can now get an exemption” is a huge overstatement.
Someone in North Carolina asked for it and happened to get it from her employer. That does not provide any firm basis for anyone else to follow. Any of us could have tried this last month with the same odds we have now.
Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.
As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.
That's it, I'm converting to Mechanicus. Abominable Intelligence is techno-heresy, Ave Omnissiah!
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That's one way to make the Catholic church popular again.
thank god.
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