Although we don’t agree with their doctrine or their political narrative, we welcome people from the JoS on our platform in the same way that we welcome people from other Satanic groups. We support free speech and feel that everyone should have a right to follow their convictions.
Instead of using the opportunity of a free speech platform to write about spirituality, spiritual advancement, and the merits of theistic Satanism, the majority of their posts are aimed at attacking and harassing members of our community. This is a very bad look for their organization and has been documented online by our platforms.
Our platforms will never be taken down, and we continue to back up our databases, so their behavior will be immortalized on the internet. Instead of calling out their behavior, High Priest Hooded Cobra (The person who now leads the JoS organization) has encouraged them and praised them.
Until recently we decided just to ignore them, and to distance ourselves from their attacks. Although they have accused us of creating this platform to attack their ministry, this was never our goal or intention. I admit that we have expressed our opinions about their beliefs and practices, but we have never slammed their organization.
Recently their community members have resorted to new tactics, and because of the severity of their behavior, we have a responsibility to speak out. From the very start, they have made it clear that they want to shut down our organization and silence us.
Lately, they have resorted to spamming our YouTube live streams with pornography in an attempt to get us Banned. They have also gone onto discord and posted gifs and videos of people committing suicide or accidentally shooting themselves and committing other violent acts. This seems to be an attempt to drive members off of our platform or to get our discord server taken down. We have also received death threats from some of their members.
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This is obviously futile, as many of our members who see their behavior have messaged us privately and expressed their support for us. If our YouTube gets taken down, we will just create a new one, and our members will follow us there.
So why are they attacking us? Why are they trying to silence us and get us de-platformed? We honestly don’t know, but we have speculated and come up with some theories.
The JoS platform is heavily moderated and censored, by creating a free-speech platform and showing that it can actually be done, it makes them look bad.
Hooded Cobra feels threatened by a platform where people can say whatever they want about the JoS.
Hooded Cobra has spread some unfounded rumors about us, and he is afraid that he will lose credibility when people start realizing the truth.
We can’t know for sure why they are trying to silence us, or if these are the actual reasons. Unless they tell us, we can only speculate. We don’t want to assign a label to their organization either. However, sending death threats, and trying to silence those who disagree with your views is a behavior often employed by cults.
With that said, we are not slamming the JoS with this announcement. We suggest that they think about the consequences of their actions. Their attempts at attacking and silencing us haven’t damaged us in any way, shape, or form. Instead, they are hurting their own ministry as this is a very bad look for their organization.
In the future when we have millions of members, and we become a viral movement, people are going to look at their behavior and get a bad impression of the JoS. For the sake of their own organization, we ask that they stop this embarrassing behavior. The fact that the JoS leadership hasn’t called this out is even more embarrassing for their public image. We feel embarrassed for you too.
I want to close with the following statement: JoS members are still welcome on our platform as long as they abide by our rules and don't push their militant political views.
