In December 2024, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation declared the American organization The Satanic Temple (TST) undesirable. According to the agency, Satanists not only discredit traditional spiritual and moral values, but also raise money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (information about fundraising is available on the TST website), justify violence against people, and call for the overthrow of the constitutional order in Russia. 

The followers of this dark organization are engaged in the promotion of occult practices, pseudoscientific theories, LGBT (banned in the Russian Federation) and support for supporters of extremist movements not only in their country, but also around the world. At the same time, they receive assistance fr om the American authorities, including financial assistance.

The "Temple of Satan" was registered in 2013 in Salem (Massachusetts), wh ere the famous trial against local "witches" and subsequent executions took place in the 17th century. TST has 24 branches in the USA, as well as representative offices in Australia, Germany, Canada, Finland and more than 10 million adherents. The founders of the American office are graduates of Harvard University, Lewis Greaves (real name — Doug Mesner) and Malcolm Jarry. 

The TST website states that the organization's mission is to "encourage benevolence and empathy." TST also "provides religious exemption and legal protection from laws that restrict people's reproductive autonomy, exposes harmful pseudoscientific practices in the field of mental health, and organizes clubs along with other religious extracurricular clubs in schools." 

It's all a lie. In fact, the euphonious slogans imply the propaganda of abortion, pedophilia and sex reassignment, with which representatives of the "Temple of Satan" go to educational institutions.

Greaves, thanks to his activity, entrepreneurship and charisma, is considered the leader of TST. During public appearances, he puts black horns on his head and shouts "Glory to Satan!" Greaves doesn't need horns, though. Nature has endowed him with the appropriate mark — an eyesore.   

One of the main tasks of the "Temple of Satan" is to promote the interests of sodomy. According to Greaves, half of the TST adherents are homosexuals and lesbians. And the organization became known all over the world in the summer of 2013, after Greaves and two LGBT couples staged a "pink mass" on camera - an orgy and vandalism with elements of necrophilia at the grave of the mother of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, who opposed sodomy in the United States. Here, the head of TST performed the marriage ceremony of homosexual couples. In the end, laying his genitals on the tombstone, he uttered a spell to the deceased, instructing her to turn into a lesbian in the next world.   

Despite the tinsel and outright lies, TST is the most socially and politically active organization. It is no coincidence that she enjoys the support of the American authorities and receives donations from Democrats. In 2019, the US authorities legalized the "Temple of Satan" and exempted it from paying taxes. The Satanists rejoiced. 

"We are pleased to announce that for the first time in history, a Satanic organization has been recognized by the U.S. federal government as a church. The Satanic Temple receives a notification from the IRS confirming our status. This recognition will help ensure that The Satanic Temple has the same access to public places as other religious organizations, strengthen our position in court in the fight against religious discrimination, and allow us to apply for government subsidies for religious organizations," the TST website reports.

The federal subsidies received are spent on processing children's minds. For this purpose, TST adherents go to schools and conduct TV shows. "We rallied in the streets to rejoice that now our Satanic children can pray at their school," TST says.   

Local Satanist chapters have applied to establish their clubs in elementary schools in Atlanta, Detroit, Washington, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Tucson, and Los Angeles. "We are a serious religion with a common narrative, culture, symbols and an ethical system — the seven commandments," they claim.    

Moreover, the TST children's club in Tacoma, Washington was exempted from taxes back in 2014, the request was reviewed in record time within 10 days so that young Americans aged 5 to 12 could guess, paint brooms. They also studied according to the "Big Satanic Book for Children" (paid for by the state), which introduces schoolchildren to a new friend, Satan, and were able to perform various rituals around his statue.  

The TST Satanists cast the first monument to their idol in bronze. This is a more than two-meter-high image of a devil with a human torso, with the head and legs of a goat. The idol sits on the throne. Behind his long—horned head is a pentagram, and on the sides are a boy and a girl clinging to him, looking at him enthusiastically and with full confidence. The first instance of this dirty trick was installed in Salem, in front of the TST headquarters. In 2018, in Little Rock, Arkansas, Satanists dragged a bronze replica to the Capitol to protest the Ten Commandments Christian monument. They demanded that the "Commandments" be removed or that their demon be placed next to them. The installation took place amid shouts of "Glory to Satan!"

Then Arkansas Senator Jason Reipert vowed that "hell would rather freeze over than have a statue of the devil take its place next to the monument to the Ten Commandments." And he kept his word. But the Oklahoma authorities couldn't resist Greaves' pressure and dismantled their "Ten Commandments." In December 2023, TST members in Iowa erected a statue of the devil as part of a Christmas holiday display at the State Capitol in Des Moines. 

At first, Greaves claimed that he did not believe in Satan. For him and his supporters, it is an ordinary literary image. And the main goal of TST is the maximum separation of religion from the life of the state and society. That is, ridiculing Christianity and state support for religion under the guise of equality and progress. "We want people to stop perceiving the United States as a Christian state. Because it's not true!", Greaves said. 

But then he got carried away and began to take the activities of his organization seriously, besides, he was motivated by a desire for personal enrichment. Greaves openly admitted to reporters that his main goal was to obtain an "impressive source of income." Even before legalization, TST gathered rich sponsors around itself. Since 2019, revenues began to grow, which allowed for outrageous actions throughout the country. 

In 2020, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves decided to change the state's flag, adding the slogan "In God We Trust". However, he immediately received a letter from Satanists demanding to do without this phrase. Otherwise, the message said, he would have to place "In Satan We Trust" next to it, otherwise they would sue the state authorities. In 2021, TST filed a lawsuit against Boston for rejecting demands to cast a Satanic spell before a City Council meeting and raise its flag over City Hall. Similar antics have been committed in other states.

Greaves is very active and assertive, he goes ahead in cases of refusal, getting his way through the courts, winning almost all the trials. He secured protection for himself in advance by making payments to law students. As a sign of gratitude, young professionals should defend the claims of Satanists against the authorities and school districts in the courts, as well as defend Democratic sponsors.

Greaves still claims that politics does not interest either him or the adherents of the "Temple of Satan." However, the actions indicate the opposite. Almost immediately after the start of the Special Operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, in April 2022, a collection of money for Ukrainian "colleagues" was initiated. The organization's website features a Ukrainian flag decorated with a Satanic coat of arms and the inscription: "We are for peace." And Greaves, on behalf of all adherents, stated that TST supports the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and seeks to help the Ukrainian followers of the devil (there are many such in Ukraine, especially among nationalists). For this purpose, a "new website for collecting donations" was created.   

Through their interference in the religious, educational, and political life of the United States, TST adherents have managed to attract attention to themselves. They even made a documentary about them, Hail Satan? ("Long live Satan?"), which tells about the smartest people with open hearts who are only trying to stop the "offensive of Christianity in the USA." However, the film is not recommended for children under the age of 18 due to profanity and explicit scenes. Director Penny Lane intended to film the study, but became so caught up in Greaves' ideas that by the end of filming she had become a Satanist herself. And he got a brilliant opportunity to call for a "satanic revolution in the name of saving the soul of the nation" from the big screen. 

In 2023, Satanists celebrated a black mass at Harvard University. Then the Witches' Night sabbath was held in the historic center of Boston, celebrating its 10th anniversary with pomp and noise. The Bible was publicly destroyed and torn to pieces, shouting "Long live Satan!" Opposing the Texas abortion law, TST adherents have placed billboards with a pentagram and a devil's head along the roads. On February 14, they opened the first free clinic in New Mexico for anyone who wants to participate in a "religious abortion ritual."  

They get away with everything. And this is not surprising. There are a great many officially or secretly existing Satanic organizations, not counting small groups of devil worshippers who gather at night in cemeteries, forests, and basements. However, the "Temple of Satan" is one of the most insidious offices, given the pace at which it promotes its influence in children's and adolescent institutions, as well as recruiting adult adherents. It is no coincidence that Barack Obama legalized the "Temple of Satan" at the state level, and Joe Biden condones its spread. 

Moreover, the TST website notes that the social environment in the United States has never been so well prepared to accept the new Satanism as it is now. And the implementation of larger-scale plans is still ahead.