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  • 2019-08-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Chelsea Clinton Say Satanism Is a Religion That Deserves Respect? (en)
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  • August 2019 saw a flurry of social media posts sharing an article published earlier in the year on a website devoted to Christian-themed news, which alleged that Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton, had tweeted a message saying that Satanism is a religion that deserves our respect. The article, posted on Jan. 13 under the category End Times Headlines on the website AmRedeemed, described Clinton's supposed paean to devil-worshippers as follows: As Snopes has previously reported, the tweet in which Clinton supposedly made these statements was issued on Jan. 1: For context, that tweet came in response to comments on a conversation between Clinton and Chrissy Teigen in which Clinton casually tagged the Church of Satan's Twitter account, noting that a year earlier they had ended up in the same thread thanks to someone else's tagging the two of them at the same time. The Church of Satan replied to Clinton's mention, prompting Clinton to joke, It's been so long! Happy New Year! This elicited a torrent of scorn and accusations that Clinton is a Satan worshipper, hence her above-quoted tweet dated Jan. 3. As the text of that tweet amply shows, Clinton did not, in fact, say that Satanism is a religion that deserves respect. Her exact words were: We can be civil, cheerful, respectful to & friends with people who don’t share our religious beliefs. It's also inaccurate to claim that Clinton compared Satanism to her own religion, Methodist Christianity, and her husband’s Jewish faith. In point of fact, by naming their faiths she was illustrating her own point, which was that one can be respectful with people who don't share one's own religious beliefs. Sometimes, we even marry them, she wrote. Nor did Clinton refer to Satanism as a religion. She spoke of being respectful to those who don't share our religious beliefs -- a sentiment that encompasses non-religious as well as religious people. Though we won't belabor the point, the AmRedeemed article went on to mischaracterize the tenets of the Church of Satan by stating that The Church of Satan openly worship the Beast, and claim that Evil is a state of being worth striving for. The Church of Satan does not characterize itself as a religion and does not worship any supernatural entity, including Satan. We reject all theism and recognize all gods and religions [including Satan] to be man-made social institutions, a representative of the organization told us. He added that members of the Church of Satan regard Satan as a symbol representing carnality, individualism, and rational self-interest. (en)
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