It’s a particular design that was made by a civic group in the 1950s, but the promotion and spread and creation of those monuments was funded and supported in part by Paramount pictures as kind of a tie-in with their film … It’s really reminiscent of other monument battles, like with the Confederate monument battles as well, where it seems like these are from a really old time in American history that we should preserve, but often you see that they’re quite new, and they don’t have the cultural heritage and history behind them that we’re told they have.” “The monuments were created to look like the stone tablets that are carried down by Charlton Heston in the Cecil B. Penny Lane on Ten Commandments monuments: And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with Penny Lane in Episode 361 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). But there’s also kind of this strange look on their face-of concern-because they’re really trying to figure out if they’re a Satanist or not, and they’ve never had to ask that question before.” “It’s really something to behold when you see these crowds walking out of a theater with these gigantic smiles on their faces,” she says, “because they’ve obviously had this fun experience that’s given them joy and uplift and inspiration. People stick around because-for a person who is a Satanist-Satanism brings them a great deal of meaning and value.”Īnd just as the Satanic Temple uses humor to communicate a serious message, Lane hopes that her documentary does the same.
But then once you get there, what do the ideas have to offer? People don’t stick around for Satanism just because it’s funny.
“Probably many of the religions that we now take for granted as being ‘real’ started out with cons or press conferences or lying or magic tricks,” she says. Lane also says it’s not unusual for religious movements to have humble beginnings. It’s not evidence that they’re insincere. That’s the heart of the religious identity. Because the core of Satanism is to embrace joking and pranking and being mischievous and freaking people out. “Yes, they are internet trolls and pranksters, and they really are Satanists. “It’s not an either/or proposition,” she says. Lane says that sort of risk-taking demonstrates real devotion. One scene in the film shows the Temple’s spokesperson, Lucien Greaves, strapping on a bulletproof vest before appearing beside the group’s controversial statue of Baphomet. The group is best known for its activism on the issue of separation of church and state.
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