Satan, as a figure of speech.
The rebel of Paradise Lost and of Anatole France, not the adversary of scripture. The Temple uses him because the argument only works when the applicant is the one nobody wants to accommodate.
The Temple's Satan is the rebel of Paradise Lost and of Anatole France's Revolt of the Angels, not the adversary of scripture, and he is used because the Establishment Clause argument only works when the applicant is the one nobody wants to accommodate. This is also the sharpest line between the Temple and the Church of Satan, which Anton LaVey founded in San Francisco in 1966 and which regards the Temple's politics as a betrayal of LaVeyan individualism; the Church of Satan has described Temple members as masquerading. The two bodies are separate, mutually hostile, and constantly confused for each other in press coverage. Neither worships a being either believes exists.
The same ground, other faiths
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