In my time perusing social media and the many places where
the unseen masses congregate to share their views, I have realised a fairly
simple equation: The more that a person points the finger at someone for being
a Satanist, the less they actually know about what Satanism actually is. Anyone
in the mood for a good laugh (and still has the strength of will to use
Twitter) should go and check the Church of Satan’s Twitter account, where there
are daily iterations of people taking the time to lash out at the
Church, while not using a fraction of that time to do some basic Q&A
reading so that they know what they’re angry against.
It’s one of those aspects of the modern understanding of
religion that always tickles me, and it’s what immediately drew me to checking
this documentary out. A chronicle of the Satanic Temple, the more
politically-minded side of Satanist doctrine that is more interested in
activism than metaphysics, the depiction we are given is one that takes into
account the common misconceptions about the movement and, with a devilishly
cheeky grin, dispels a lot of the more frequent myths surrounding it.
