Liberals Join Forces with the Princesses of Darkness

This opinion piece is not a piece of satire; it’s as serious as a heart attack, and it may contain some truth.  There probably are a few thousand self-described witches and satanists, and here’s an excerpt from a 2015 Time Magazine article that some may find interesting:

The Satanic Temple holds to the basic premise that undue suffering is bad, and that which reduces suffering is good. They do not believe in symbolic “evil.”  Most vitally, though, the group does not “promote a belief in a personal Satan.” By their logic, Satan is an abstraction, or, as Nancy Kaffer wrote for The Daily Beast last year, “a literary figure, not a deity — he stands for rationality, for skepticism, for speaking truth to power, even at great personal cost.”

That actually does sound like something a progressive might say.