A Michigan man was arrested for planning to bomb The Satanic Temple headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, police said.

Luke Isaac Terpstra, 30, of Grant, Michigan was arrested on Jan. 2 by Grant police, according to a Jan. 12 news release from the Salem Police Department. Terpstra is charged with possession of bombs with unlawful intent.

Michigan law enforcement were tipped off about Terpstra’s plan by his mother, WZZM reported citing court documents.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The Satanic Temple has 7 tenets:

    1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

    2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

    3. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

    4. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

    5. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

    6. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

    7. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

    Yeah, definitely monsters, unreasonable, pure evil /s

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Well, Christ has a good message too for what it is worth.

      Not that I’m in any way against spreading the 7 tenants because they are beautiful.

      My belief is that the animus towards the Satanic Temple is a mostly projection at this point.

      • rifugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        My belief is that the animus towards the Satanic Temple is a mostly projection at this point.

        My belief is that it’s pure ignorance. Do you think this guy actually looked beyond the name to learn a little more about the organization and still decided to bomb the place? No, any Christian that hates the Satanic Temple does so purely based on the name and their assumptions.