Aron Ra is an atheist activist who is perhaps best known for his collaborations and association with The Satanic Temple.
Identifying as a non-theistic Satanist, he opened up Nevada’s Clark County Commission Meeting not with a prayer, but rather an invocation “inspired by the seven tenets or ethical principles of the Satanic Temple.”
We last wrote about the Satanic Temple in our posts.
- The Satanic Temple Raffles Free Abortion, Admits Aborting Unborn Babies is a Satanic Ritual
- Satanic Temple Sues to Stop Abortion Bans, Claims Killing Babies is a Religious Right
- The Satanic Temple Wins Lawsuit Against School that Tried to Stop Their ‘After School Satan Club’
During the meeting he told the gathered crowd in part:
This invocation today was inspired by the seven tenets or ethical principles of the Satanic Temple, an atheistic organization that believes in compassion, empathy, justice, autonomy, freedom of speech, scientifically based beliefs, accountability, and wisdom. Let us begin.
Let us never bow our heads or bend the knee in obeisance to any faith from the past that is based on ignorant, bigoted savagery.Let us not look back with reverence to dark times of fearful minds, unenlightened by modern scientific knowledge, but move forward with critical thinking, the only way to determine actual factual truth. Let us not fear the tree of knowledge would extend our grasp and devour its fruit. Let us make rational decisions rather than imposing outdated authoritarian religious doctrine with varied interpretations, some more vile than others.
…Hail Satan, the archetype or symbol of the bringer of knowledge, and hail thyself.
