{"id":4195,"date":"2018-11-09T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sabrina-makers-sued-by-satanic-temple-over-statue\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:47:04","slug":"sabrina-makers-sued-by-satanic-temple-over-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sabrina-makers-sued-by-satanic-temple-over-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina makers sued by Satanic Temple over statue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8EE7\/production\/_104238563_gettyimages-585129506.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves says the group&#8217;s imagery is being misused<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The Satanic Temple activist group is suing the makers of TV series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for $50 million (\u00a338m) over a statue.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix and Warner Bros allegedly copied the group&#8217;s statue of the goat deity Baphomet in the programme. <\/p>\n<p>Both production companies have declined to comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Satanic Temple does not believe in a supernatural Satan, but instead seeks &#8220;to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Their lawsuit, filed on Thursday in New York, claims an icon similar to their own appears in four episodes of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple, posted a tweet comparing their statue with that in the show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a supernatural programme on Netflix following Sabrina Spellman, a half-mortal half-witch teenager. It is based on a comic book of the same name, which also inspired the show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a series which ran from 1996-2003. <\/p>\n<p>Characters in the show who worship the &#8220;Dark Lord&#8221; or Satan practise cannibalism and forced worship, and the Satanic Temple argues its members are being associated with these &#8220;evil antagonists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucienGreaves\/status\/1056735537502081025\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Mr Greaves confirmed the group was going to take legal action<\/a> against the show&#8217;s production companies for &#8220;appropriating our copyright monument design to promote their asinine Satanic Panic fiction&#8221;. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-41349976\" class=\"story-body__link\">Netflix&#8217;s new stars of Sabrina unveiled<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-45989783\" class=\"story-body__link\">Does the Sabrina reboot live up to the hype?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Satanic Temple created a statue of the goat deity Baphomet as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/put-a-satanic-monument-at-ok-capitol#\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">its campaign to &#8220;complement and contrast&#8221; a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma City<\/a> on the grounds of religious freedom. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/11\/08\/the-satanic-temple-sues-netflix-warner-bros-for-150-million.html\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Mr Greaves told US broadcaster CNBC that Baphomet has &#8220;come to represent us as a people&#8221;<\/a> and that the statue in Sabrina &#8220;dilutes and denigrates&#8221; their group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is the Satanic Temple?<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 2012, the group works to ensure the separation of church and state and holds Satan as a symbol of &#8220;opposition to arbitrary authority&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>With fifteen official chapterhouses in the US, the group&#8217;s membership soared off the back of the election of Donald Trump in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>In a speech Mr Greaves said that the pre-election global following of around 100,000 had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/cu-news\/ci_30555057\/satan-at-cu-student-group-brings-satanic-temple\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">&#8220;thousands&#8221; of applications for new members overnight after the election.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-46147144\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves says the group&#8217;s imagery is being misused The Satanic Temple activist group is suing the makers of TV series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for $50 million (\u00a338m) over a statue. 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