Sean Patrick Palmer, of Oklahoma, arrested after explosive device found last week near porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

Sean Patrick Palmer, of Oklahoma, arrested after explosive device found last week near porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

An Oklahoma man was arrested on Thursday morning in last week’s bombing attempt of a Satanic Temple in Massachusetts.

Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Oklahoma, was arrested on charges of “using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce”, the United States’ attorney office for the district of Massachusetts said in a statement.

The Satanic Temple does not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural, but rather uses Satan as a symbol of free will, humanism and anti-authoritarianism. It regularly angers rightwingers and Christians.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      A six-page handwritten note was found in a flower bed adjacent to where the pipe bomb was discovered. Among other things, the letter allegedly stated:

      DEAR SATANIST
      ELOHIM SEND ME 7 MONTHS AGO TO GIVE YOU
      PEACEFUL MESSAGE TO HOPE YOU REPENT. YOU SAY
      NO, ELOHIM NOW SEND ME TO SMITE SATAN AND I
      HAPPY TO OBEY. AND ELOHIM WANT ME TO CONTACT
      YOU TO
      TELL YOU REPENT. TURN FROM SIN. ELOHIM
      NO LIKE THIS PLACE AND PLAN TO DESTROY IT. MAYBE
      SALEM TOO? ELOHIM SEND ME TO FIGHT CRYBABY
      SATAN, BUT WANT ME TO MAKE HARD EFFORT SO NO
      ONE DIES. I OBEY.

      Not to make fun of it. But you’re right and that’s why they’re so dangerous.