Proselytization refers to trying to convert someone to a religion, which they don’t do.
They do claim it's a religion. It is legally a religion. When they are recruiting, it is proselytism. Also, proselytism is part of the definition of a church in most countries, that is why, for instance, the Church of Satan is not legally a church in the US, because they do not proselytize. By their own saying and by the government, TST is a religion and they do proselytize.
Where did I say they are a non-profit?
You said it is just an NGO. I mean, yeah, but you could say that about pretty much anything. But clearly there is something more to it than the average NGO, with them being both a church and a couple for-profit organizations.
They did try to put a baphomet statue in front of a 10 commandments monument in Arkansas. They are fighting for a plurality of religion, not secularism.If I wanted to contribute to a secular cause, I would much rather contribute to a secular organization to begin with.
TST does not proselytize
But the only times you hear of them is when people are trying to get more folk implied (or when they send a lawsuit, but that's an other story). TST plays the card of a non profit when they don't want to be associated with religious weirdos, and the card of religion when they want a special treatment. In the end it's a knockoff religion that hijacked the name "satanism" while replicating what they denounce of christians.
Fire is bad so we need to recruit more firefighters to fight it.
It's much closer to putting up advertisement against advertisement.
They are just an NGO.
That's not true. It's a bunch of for-profit organizations coupled with a recognized nonprofit church so they can be exempted from taxation. See here : https://the.satanic.wiki/index.php/The_Satanic_Wiki . Also, as a supposedly non-profit org, they do not disclose their financial information, which is usually a big red flag.
Buddhism can definitely be theistic. Satanism is defined as "non-theistic", which means it is not about the existence of a divinity in the usual meaning, so there could be atheistic and theistic satanists. Confucianism is kind of tricky because, if I recall right, it is mostly considered as a philosophy before a religion, even though it does include rituals and dogmas.
But I do agree with you, people will see the bad things coming from major and enshitified religions and ignore that other views, other options exist.
"We don't like religious symbols in public space, so let's put more of these, yay!""Proselytism is bad, so we need to recruit more people to fight it.""The guy at the top is not a Nazi anymore, so it's fine."
Right now, I have a strawberry mead in the fermenter. Hopefully it will turn out okay.I also gathered just enough baja blast bottles to do a batch of mountain mead. I did a recipe with the original one years ago and a friend of mine really wanted me to try this variant.
They should switch to kilometer-based exit numbers, so they could stack more exit per mile without needing to add letters!Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Absolutely! They should rename it something like the "Ministry of Peace", so it sounds softer. I don't like negative and violent connotations. It scares me.
Yeah, but the comparison translates poorly to software, since there is no way to "take" a whole ship, only to copy it. Whether you copy it directly or rewrite it, the material is the same, because you have the same information in the end. It would be closer to take the ship apart and rebuild it exactly the same using the same planks.
Now, if you ask the AI to re-write a software in a different language, or using different patterns, that would be something else. If it writes the open-source project exactly the same, byte by byte without the license, then it's simply breaking the terms.
Then maybe some states are not purely capitalists.Anyway, even in a capitalistic point of view, it's probably better to avoid trading with the US these days.
If big corporation fail to improve their games graphics, then gamers will have to find other criterias to choose what games to buy, like gameplay and actual content.If anything, it will leave more space for indie games. And larger productions will either stagnate on graphics or start producing more cartoonish content.
They do claim it's a religion. It is legally a religion. When they are recruiting, it is proselytism. Also, proselytism is part of the definition of a church in most countries, that is why, for instance, the Church of Satan is not legally a church in the US, because they do not proselytize. By their own saying and by the government, TST is a religion and they do proselytize.
You said it is just an NGO. I mean, yeah, but you could say that about pretty much anything. But clearly there is something more to it than the average NGO, with them being both a church and a couple for-profit organizations.