When it comes to watching your favourite series, movies or documentaries, very few media-service providers can compete with Netflix. But, do you know that Netflix is facing a potential lawsuit?
Really? Who wants to take Netflix to court? Satan apparently is. Technically, not Lucifer but rather the Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Bros. for $50 million.
What?! Why is the Satanic Temple taking Netflix and Warner Bros. to court? Are Lucifer and his followers tired of wreaking havoc the normal way with temptation and other sins, opting now for legal battles?
Not at all. The temple is taking the two media businesses to court for copyright infringement. The series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina portrays a statue which strikes an uncanny resemblance to the Baphomet statue.
Co-founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, tweeted at the end of October the temple will be taking legal action following the series appropriating the church’s copyrighted statue. The reason for this is because the Satanic Church feels the series is promoting Satanic panic fiction.
He says the show uses their central icon as the central icon for the story line’s evil, human sacrificing Satanic Cult.
But aren’t Satanist evil and don’t they practice human sacrifice?
The show’s characters not only worship Satan but participate in necromancy, cannibalism, murder and acts of torture, among other dastardly deeds. Apparently, the church doesn’t stand for any of this.
According to the Satanic Temple, based in Salem, not only does the church not really worship the devil or any other supernatural being, but they also encourage empathy towards others, eliminate suffering and promoting individuality. Uhmmm… I’m confused. Have we not been told for centuries that Satan is real and the bad guy?
Either way, Netflix and Warner Bros. will now have to face the consequences of using a statue representing Satan in a negative light. Or face the dark forces in court. How bizarre, the world truly is a strange place.
