Satansplain #073 - The Seven Fundamental Tenets

A deep look into the so-called 7 Fundamental Tenets: the prank group who created them, their history of being changed, why they have nothing to do with Satanism, and how they compare to similar lists created in modern times.

Sources:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130116090744/http://www.thesatanictemple.com/fundamental-tenets-of-the-satanic-temple/
• http://www.atheistmindhumanistheart.com/winners/
• https://www.penneypeirce.com/the-9-insights-from-the-celestine-prophecy
• https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:18 - About Cevin Soling and his Satanic Temple

00:11:11 - The Tenets: The Original Preamble, and how TST originally professed to be devil worshipers

00:16:11 - Tenet #1 (and an overall examination)

00:19:58 - TST isn't Satanism and their antics don't work

00:26:49 - ...and TST doesn't care about children.

00:32:03 - Tenet #2

00:36:52 - Original Tenet #3 (later #6)

00:39:12 - Original Tenet #4 (thrown out)

00:42:22 - Original Tenet #5, "All life is precious in the eyes of Satan"?!?

00:46:49 - Original Tenet #6 (later #4)

00:49:38 - Original Tenets #7, 8, 9

00:53:00 - Like the list? You fell for a prank

00:56:30 - We can all write stuff better than the 10 Commandments; The Celestine Prophecy; The Secret

01:00:26 - "Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart" (2014)

01:03:47 - Unitarian Universalists and the 7 Principles