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Ep. 31 - Lucien Greaves, Spokesperson for The Satanic Temple

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lucien Greaves is the spokesperson for The Satanic Temple. You know his organization because they’ve been very active recently regarding church/state separation issues. In Oklahoma, where there was a Ten Commandments monument near the Capitol building, Greaves’ group requested putting up a statue of Baphomet… leading to all sorts of chaos. They’ve also tried to put up a Satanic display in the Florida Capitol building. And, my favorite, after a Florida school district allowed an outside group to do a Bible giveaway for students, they requested to distribute a Satanic coloring book… which may lead to an end to outside book distributions for good in that district. We spoke with Lucien about how he doesn't actually believe in Satan, what his group's relationship is like with other Satanic groups, and why they conducted a Pink Mass over the grave of Fred Phelps' mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Friendly atheist.com. Lucian grieves is the spokesperson for the satanic temple. You know his organization

1:18.0

because they've been very active recently regarding church state separation issues.

1:23.0

In Oklahoma, where there was a Ten Commandments monument near the Capitol Building,

1:27.0

Greaves Group requested putting up a statue of Baffimet,

1:30.0

leading to all sorts of chaos. They've also tried to put up a satanic display in the Florida Capitol building for Christmas, you know.

1:38.0

And my favorite, after a Florida school district allowed an outside group to do a Bible giveaway for students,

1:44.0

his group requested to distribute a satanic coloring book, which may end up

1:50.0

leading to an end to outside book distributions for good in that district.

1:55.7

So Lucian, thank you for being with us here tonight.

1:58.7

Should I call you Lucian?

1:59.7

I mean, that's not your real name, but what do you prefer and why do you use that particular name? Where did Lucian come from and hell where did your last name come from?

2:09.0

Actually, that was pretty off the cuff.

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