The Satanic Temple Is Suing Sabrina For Copying Their Boobless Goat-Man
If you haven't seen Sabrina yet, you'd better get on that before the goat-man has boobs again.
It looks as though Sabrina may be compounding her demonic problems with some legal ones.
The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Bros. for $USD150 million, claiming The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina infringed upon the organisation’s copyright. In a lawsuit filed in the US District Court this week, The Satanic Temple claims that the Netflix series copied the Temple’s design of occult figure Baphomet, and further that the way in which it used the design damaged the reputation of an organisation literally named after the embodiment of evil.
Baphomet is a prominent figure in various occult followings, first appearing in the time of the Knights Templar around 1300. The most popular representation of Baphomet was designed by Eliphas Lévi in the 1850s, featuring a goat’s head and hooves, a bird’s wings, and an androgynous body with female breasts.
The Satanic Temple’s co-founder Lucien Greaves spoke to the BBC about the figure’s design in 2015, when the Temple created a $USD100,000 Baphomet statue in response to a proposed Ten Commandments statue in Oklahoma. He stated that the Temple removed the breasts in order to avoid any controversy regarding gender, which he felt would distract from the point the Temple was trying to make about the separation of church and state.
Instead, the statue added a young boy and girl looking up at the goat-faced figure, both to reflect “male-female dualism” and to symbolise that “there is nothing to be afraid of”.
The statue featured in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is also devoid of boobs, and also incorporates small children.
For purposes of comparison… pic.twitter.com/AZJvmq1Cks
— Lucien Greaves (@LucienGreaves) October 30, 2018
Based in Salem (because of course it is), the Satanic Temple was founded in 2012 by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry. In a misnomer, the Temple claims that it doesn’t actually believe in Satan or the supernatural. Instead, it uses Satan as a metaphor in advocating for individual sovereignty. They’re basically edgy anarchist humanists that like pentagrams and self-identify as outsiders.
The lawsuit claims that “the Sabrina Series indicates, impliedly and expressly, that the TST Baphomet with Children is a symbol of evil, associated with forced-devil worship, cannibalism, and murder.”
In response to being asked on Twitter whether he had seen the show, Greaves said, “Tell me exactly what in the show you think will make me accept that a monument I spent a year and 1/2 refining the design of, spent over $100k on, and having become the central image of our particular org, has been directly copied for use to portray a cannibalistic cult.”
I'm amazed that anybody is confused as to why we would seek legal remedy over Sabrina using our monument. 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?
— Lucien Greaves (@LucienGreaves) October 29, 2018
The Satanic Temple’s website states that “The Baphomet statue is protected by copyright and owned by United Federation of Churches LLC dba The Satanic Temple”.
On top of requesting orders amounting to $USD150 million, the lawsuit demands that the boobless design of Baphomet be digitally removed from the Sabrina series. So if you haven’t seen it yet, you’d better get on that before the goat-man has boobs again.