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Many religions have gods raped and murdered. And we see them all over the place. There's literally a smash hit game called Hades. Holy Hell, we literally named a planet after it.
Okay? So what’s the point? Hades is equally unreasonable for associating with as a rational or civil person. If you want people to think you have good judgment I don’t think associating with symbols that represent murder and destruction makes sense. The problem is that Satan’s myth is all about destruction, whereas the same cannot be said for God. If you’re retconning Satan then that’s a different story I suppose.
I mean, both are about destruction though. If we just go by destruction caused, God kills so, so many more people in the Bible, and significantly more are killed in the name of God to this day. I mean, God's wrath is literally legendary.
I don't think the Satanic Temple really "retcons" much of Satan, it just views them in a different light. Despite the rhetoric, biblical Satan doesn't really do that much outside of angering God by offering free will. As a symbol, he already champions self-determination. Now sure, there's been a lot of biblical fanfic written in the last 2,000 years that has made him into a symbol of destruction, but all that fanfic was written by Catholics, not by the Satanic Temple. Should they really be held responsible for how Satan was portrayed in Milton's Paradise Lost, a completely fictitious image made-up wholesale in 1667?
Well, Satan’s inspiration origin is Zoroastrian, where that entity was thought of as destructive will. There’s nothing inherently interesting about destruction for the sake of it, which is what that entity represents. God OTOH can make claims of being about more than just destruction. That’s the problem. So either retcon Satan or just be okay with being associated with murder symbol.
You're the only one getting upset about this.
Maybe the modern Christian conceptualization of Satan comes from that, but the view is not Biblically supported. And isn't that what's supposed to matter to Christians?