You just have to love this.

Many Christians have described the white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville as ‘satanic’ or the work or Satan.  Some of the crazier Republicans even suggest this is just ‘secularism’ run amuck.  Somehow.

We live in America, land of diversity.  Turns out, the Satanic Temple exists, and they’re torqued.

Lucien Greaves, the co-founder and spokesperson for the Satanic Temple, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post “I’m a founder of the Satanic Temple. Don’t blame Satan for white supremacy.”  As god is my witness.

(It’s just a figure of speech.)

Anyway, I read it, and found it more cogent and better written than most Republican statements, and miles better than anything that Trump has spewed out so far.

As the co-founder of and spokesman for the Satanic Temple, I’m naturally irritated by [Satanic] comments. To many casual observers, there seems to be a tendency to view condemnations of white supremacy as Satanism as a triumph of progressive thought among prominent U.S. Christians. But such language is not harmless. It lets mainstream religions off the hook for some of the darker periods of American history, despite the deep connections between slavery and Christian theology. These leaders’ invocation of the eternal adversary as a scapegoat comes with darker implicit assumptions that should be confronted and rejected outright.

Cool, right?

So the Post article is worth a read.  Clear and entertaining.

Second, it’s a thing now.  Even Satanists don’t want to be associated with these wingnuts.