The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism as described in The Satanic Bible. The church does not believe in or worship a literal supernatural entity called Satan. High priest Peter Gilmore describes the members as "skeptical atheists", indicating Hebrew root of the word "Satan" as "opposer" or "one who questions". Moreover, the Church does not advocate any one political party or ideology; it also does not collectively lobby for any political ends. The Satanic philosophy positions itself in favor of certain concepts that have social and political connotations; one of which being Social Darwinism.The church opposes institutional racism and sexism, and supports equality before the law. …show more content…
As mentioned before , it believes in equality before law being completely against favoritism or religious activities of any sort. The church totally supports the freedom of speech and also the freedom of thought. The Church supports the editors of the Charlie Hebdo in terms of expressing their views on what they fell like but on the other hand the point to be noted is “ is it right on their part to be targeting Islam?” The church’s opinion is that it just wasn’t Islam being targeted but the magazine was satire of other issues as well. So after the reactions towards the satirical magazine do we still feel that anything such as FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT