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The Satanic Temple is threatening to sue Netflix afterTheChilling Adventures of Sabrinaused a satanic statue in a recent episode.
Earlier this week, Lucien Greaves, the co-founder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple (TST), announced that his organization was planning to take legal action against the show for using Baphomet, a winged-goat deity statue, in an episode without the temple’s permission.
Greaves also argued that the series depicted the monument in a negative and false light.
“Yes, we are taking legal action regarding #TheChillingAdventuresofSabrina appropriating our copyrighted monument design to promote their asinine Satanic Panic fiction,” hetweeted on Sunday.
“I’m amazed that anybody is confused as to why we would seek legal remedy over Sabrina using our monument,” Greaves added in aseparate tweet. “Would they be as understanding of a fictional show that used a real mosque as the HQ of a terrorist cell? A fictional Blood Libel tale implicating real world Jews?”
Representatives for Netflix and The Satanic Temple did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Speaking toRolling Stone,Greaves said the way the statue was depicted in the episode was contradictory to “what Baphomet represents” and what TST stands for.
TST’s legal counsel, Stuart de Haan, echoed Greaves’ thoughts in a statement to CNN .
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Most recently, the bronze statue made an appearance at the Arkansas State Capitol during a rally in August 2018.
Representatives from the Satanic Temple put Baphomet on the grounds as a way to argue that the Ten Commandments monument — which was already standing near the Capitol at the time — should be removed.
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Despite their name, the Satanic Temple does not promote a belief in a personal Satan, according totheir website.
Instead, the organization encourages benevolence, empathy, common sense, and justice for all people, while rejecting tyrannical authority and symbolic “evil.”
There are currently 16 chapters of TST around the country.
source: people.com
