Events

[LECTURE] Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves will present a pair of lectures this week in Buffalo. The Satanic Temple is a “non theistic” religious organization whose stated mission is to encourage benevolence and empathy and to advocate for common sense, reason, and justice. They’ve enacted this mission by publicly opposing laws which they view as promoting religion, specifically Christianity. The group recently made the news for challenging a Missouri law that would require women to wait 72 hours before having an abortion and be given a pamphlet that states that “human life begins at conception,” on the grounds that this represents a state government promoting a religious belief, which violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The first of Greaves’ two presentations will happen this Wednesday, April 4 at the University at Buffalo, Knox Hall (Room 110) and is presented by the UB Pastafarians. The presentation is titled “The Satanic Temple: Fighting Against Theocracy.” The second will take place at the Center for Inquiry (1310 Sweet Home Road) on Friday April 6 and is titled “Ending Pseudoscience And Theocracy: Grey Faction And The Satanic Temple.”