"The Satanic Temple leader & cargo cult messiah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldw0xflMrAk

This video essay by researcher veritas et caritas has been edited and re-uploaded.

> The year is 2014, and Cevin Soling, also known by his pseudonym Malcolm Jarry, one of the leaders of The Satanic Temple in the US, is visiting the tiny Pacific island of Tanna, part of the nation of Vanuatu. According to Soling, “Apparently there was a prophecy I would come”. This video tells the strange story of how Cevin Soling arrived in Vanuatu, convinced that he was the messiah of a cargo cult.

#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #TST #Satanism #CevinSoling #cargoCults #Vanuatu #cults #videoEssay #VeritasEtCaritas

lmao

www.instagram.com/p/CVzfeefo_T-

The rest of photograph Jon Tonks' caption:

> In Vanuatu, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific, there is a dream that is still very much alive that men dream of being worshipped by people on the other side of the world.
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> It is an old fantasy, going back to the early explorers when imperial powers were casting their eyes hungrily about the world.
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> This image forms part of The Men Who Would Be King - a new book by myself and Christopher Lord, telling the stories of men from Europe and America who go to Vanuatu claiming or believing they are the fulfilment of a prophecy on the islands that say a divine man will one day come from overseas.

#DocumentaryPhotography #photobook #DewiLewisPublishing
#SouthPacific #FilmPhotography #Hasselblad #kodak #collaboration #photographyAndWords #TheMenWhoWouldBeKing #MillionDollarPoint
#prophecy #vanuatu #vanuatuIslands #DocumentaryPhoto #FilmCommunity #ArtClassified #JonTonks #ChristopherLord #insidePhotos #storytelling #CevinSoling #SatanicTemple #MalcolmJarry

Partially, this is because Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko and #CevinSoling (a.k.a. “#MalcolmJarry”) are fundamentally reactionary Gen X edgelords whose politics never go further left than right-wing libertarianism.

https://queersatanic.com/lucien-greaves-and-the-satanic-temple-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/

https://queersatanic.com/why-you-havent-left-the-satanic-temple/#russia-today

In the most recent episode of HBO's #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver", he made a mention of a particular publicity stunt by a certain satanic for-profit business-cum-church.

In so doing, he demonstrated perfectly the way #TheSatanicTemple's grift works, and the limitations of "Last Week Tonight" as an actual news program rather than what it is: a popularizer and disseminator of the work done by others.

If the show had done a proper investigation, they would have immediately found huge red flags involving the Temple's clinic that call into question its legitimacy entirely. Since they did not, we'll show you what so many have missed despite being out in the open.

First, we're going to show how at its most basic and fundamental level, the The #SatanicTemple's clinic is vulnerable to any legal challenge or government investigation due to its use of false information in its corporate registration as TST owners #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling continue to inappropriately use pseudonyms on legal documents.

Next, we're going to look at the way the clinic fits into #TST's pattern of claiming it can help people in states with abortion restrictions and bans despite never being able to deliver on that promise, a false claim the Temple literally advertises and profits off of.

Finally, we're going to talk about how the Temple's use of a corporation that has tax-exempt church approval and unwillingness to be financially transparent makes it impossible to keep track of exactly how much money is involved, especially since every role of corporate governance is filled by the same two men, Soling and Misicko, and their pseudonyms.

https://queersatanic.com/what-john-oliver-gets-wrong-about-the-satanic-temple-and-abortion-rights/

#SamuelAlito #SamuelAlitosMomsSatanicAbortionClinic #Abortion #AbortionRights #NewMexico

#CevinSoling is a weird dude, and it's weird that more people in #TheSatanicTemple don't care about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpiswunQh40

Good video on "Mr. Cevin and the Cargo Cult" and the background behind it.

#MalcolmJarry #CargoCults #Cults #Vanuatu #MrCevinAndTheCargoCult #WhiteSaviorism

> But in practice, former members told me, the final say goes to the “executive ministry,” made up of [Doug Misicko] and [Cevin Soling]. Local groups are expected to get clearance from Salem for their events and campaigns, and to pass on a percentage of their revenue.

Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances, by the way:
https://queersatanic.com/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances/5/

#DougMisicko #CevinSoling #SalemMA

These are also two people — #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko — who are politically completely opposed to what their popular support imagines them to be.

These are not trolls who are owning Christian Nationalists by exposing their hypocrisy; in fact, The Satanic Temple's two owners unironically want many of the same things as white nationalist reactionaries, such as completely undermining public schools:

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools

@SapphicSelene There are a lot of great people within The Satanic Temple who legitimately are trying to do good work.

Unfortunately, they are wasting their energy and resources supporting a structure designed to extract their labor and funds for the benefit of the two owners #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, who are just awful people.

https://queersatanic.com/lucien-greaves-and-the-satanic-temple-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools/

https://queersatanic.com/the-cevin-who-would-be-king/

There is a massive overlap between the kind of person who is most threatened by #ChristianNationalism, and the kind of person whom The Satanic Temple would declare it a matter of practicality to threaten into silence for having been disillusioned or victimized by TST locally.

And when you understand that #TheSatanicTemple is designed, on purpose, to only benefit two people — two dipshit Boomers with a history of reactionary, extractive politics — you understand why that overlap isn’t a coincidence, and why the culture that results is only going to hurt more people.

#CevinSoling #DougMisicko

@jlowenwrites @inbadfaith #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry" is not very influenced by the Church of Satan, and it seems like he couldn't care less about any of the #satanic stuff

However, trying to manipulate people and be an object of adoration fits with his history too, hence the would-be cargo cult messiah period of his life that overlapped with the first part of The #SatanicTemple
https://queersatanic.com/the-cevin-who-would-be-king/

=WHAT THE HELL IS "THE SATANIC TEMPLE"?=

So, if that's what The Satanic Temple is *not*, well, what is TST really?

As of 2022, TST is a collection of at least six corporations, four for-profit and two non-profit, with only one of those being a tax-exempt church.

The Temple and its two owners, #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, describe that church in contradictory ways depending on the venue and most expedient excuse at that moment.

But in March 2012 when the web domains TheSatanicTemple .com and .org, were registered, TST was just a twinkle in the eye of Cevin "#MalcolmJarry" Soling as he imagined a prank documentary about "the nicest Satanic Cult in the world".

Along with friend and collaborator David "Nicholas Crowe" Guinan, Soling used his own company Spectacle Films, Inc. to begin producing this "nice Satanists" movie with the first stunt a public prayer event in Tallahassee, Fla., in January 2013.

Soling had brought his friend Doug Misicko (a.k.a. "#DougMesner"), a self-identified Satanist, in on the project to be an expert and add verisimilitude.

Originally intended to be a role shared by Guinan, Soling, and Misicko, it was Misicko who would eventually step into the "#LucienGreaves" role full time after the first actor—and stunt— flopped.

Through 2013, #TheSatanicTemple muddled through a number of different stunts and contrary postures from "Adopt-a-Highway" to Misicko "teabagging" the grave of the Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps' mother, which got coverage from Vice, HuffPo, and others as a "#PinkMass"

Finally, at the end of the year, Guinan, Misicko, and Soling landed on the stunt that would bring them to lasting national prominence: the promise that they would install their own Baphomet statue opposite a public monument to the 10 Commandments in Oklahoma.

Tens of thousands of dollars in donations followed; the fact that TST never actually sued anyone and the ACLU won the case without any help from the Temple mattered not at all.

The Satanic Temple also made sure that this specific statue design was officially TST's intellectual property and a registered trademark they could sue over.

The Satanic Temple made sure their statue got them into lots of headlines and proceeded to fundraise off of the idea they could counter Christian monuments with the threat of their own statue arriving to guarantee religious plurality was preserved; more money poured in.

In reality, as the prank doc drifted into a project with no end date, #DavidGuinan eventually left it.

Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko embarked together on creating first a for-profit corporation (United Federation of Churches, LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple) then a 501c3 nonprofit (Reason Alliance Ltd.).

Soling would then create another for-profit he solely owned (64 Bridge LLC d/b/a "Salem Art Gallery") to house the statue and charge $8-$12 tickets to come take pictures with it.

You see them on social media all the time, and that's why.

In November 2020, as part of the official depositions for a lawsuit against the city of Belle Plaine, Minn., TST revealed that these ticket sales had since July 2017 brought in at least $182,000.

And that came *after* Misicko got caught lying about an invoice that revealed just how much fundraiser money Misicko had paid himself for the Belle Plaine stunt.

https://queersatanic.com/this-invoice-reveals-the-inner-workings-of-the-satanic-temples-finances/

We say often, "Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances."

Because, well, #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling do *shady shit* with their finances.

https://queersatanic.com/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances/5

But sometimes TSTers say the Temple shouldn't release their finances for review if the Christian orgs aren't going to.

@jamiegc #TheSatanicTemple got a minimum of $500K in tax-exempt donations last year plus who knows how much more in for-profit merch sales like $35 membership certificates

In addition, co-owner #CevinSoling is a NYC landlord scion (who tried to be a cargo cult messiah in the South Pacific from 2007-2018)

Point is, they are not hurting for money

Then from the book #TheMenWhoWouldBeKing, we recently became made aware about an *incredible* profile of #CevinSoling a.k.a. "Malcolm Jarry" that further establishes him as another right-libertarian ghoul

https://www.blind-magazine.com/news/how-to-be-a-king-a-beginners-guide/

> With us, Cevin was happy to have a receptive audience but was at the same time guarded, suspicious in case we were there to hatchet job him. We took him for lunch at a Polynesian restaurant on a dusty highway outside Boston, opposite a branch of Hooters, where he ordered the lobster and after a couple of cocktails started to loosen up.
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> "It's a sad, sad time we're living in," Cevin said, "when status is founded on the degree of how offended you are and the greater virtue you can claim." He blamed, in part, America's 'postmodern' campus culture.

Well, all of Friday came and went, and that was #TheSatanicTemple’s deadline to answer us.

Then the weekend and all of Monday came and went with no filing or explanation.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

#TST lead counsel #MattKezhaya needed to explain to the judge why he decided to file his preliminary injunction about a Facebook page 2.5 years after the lawsuit started and half a year after being informed that we had in writing and on video assurances the Temple wouldn’t seek that Facebook page.

Kezhaya really needed to make an explanation to the federal judge why the for-profit company that TST owners #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling were suing four former local TST chapter members with wasn’t just using its significant resources to be vexatious litigants in pursuit of a #SLAPP lawsuit.

But the deadline came and went.

by the way, if you're wondering why it is that we speak so openly and caustically about The #SatanicTemple, and its co-owners #DougMisicko a.k.a. "#LucienGreaves" and #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry", knowing how litigious they are it's because they already tried and failed to hit us with that—twice

The four members of @QueerSatanic currently being dragged thru litigation for 2.5 years and counting as part of a #SLAPP suit keep beating their asses in court because they are as incompetent as they are malicious

https://www.socialactuality.com/post/schism-the-satanic-temple-a-lawsuit-and-the-necessity-of-clear-minded-settlement

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/20/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

And nothing seems to piss off bullies more than when they take their best shot and you're still standing.

be gay, do crime, and #HailSatan

Is #TheSatanicTemple a business cult?

Many people are asking questions, and this is not helped by #TST constantly referring to itself as a business in court documents (even when suing as its tax-exempt church)

https://queersatanic.com/what-the-hell-is-the-satanic-temple-ep-5-the-satanic-temple-inc/

Just fucking incredible. #Journalism loves the idea of #Satanism as dark and evil or "good, actually"; but this banal abusive shit, for some reason reporters generally have no time for.

By the way, there is approximately 0 chance that TST co-owners #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko have any interest in fully opening their books up to inspection during discovery. None.

It has cost us $100,000 now to defend ourselves from #DougMisicko's and #CevinSoling's punitive lawsuit,
https://queersatanic.com/the-costs-of-defending-yourself-from-the-satanic-temple/

We have suffered harassment and our loved ones have been stalked by people apparently paid to do it, likely paid out of donations people think are helping fight for abortion access.

If you want to know more, we have tried hard to make it easier to read and understand for everyone:
https://campsite.bio/queersatanic

But know this: this is not a fight between equals. This is not a matter of "drama", and whatever problems you have with our "tone" or our "tactics" or think we "fucked around" and now are "finding out", just remember that #TheSatanicTemple will not stop with — because they haven't.

We were not the first people TST threatened to sue, and since we've stood tall, they also have sued Newsweek, it's reporter as an individual, and now this woman who made a video on TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@thesatanichousewife/video/7094299391112138030