Editing Lucien Greaves (section)

== Activism ==
Greaves has spoken on the topics of [[Satanism]], [[secularism]], and The Satanic Temple at universities throughout the United States,<ref>{{cite AV media | url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/recordings/lucien-greaves-satanic-temple-and-law | first=Lucien | last=Greaves | date=October 4, 2017 | title=The Satanic Temple and the law | publisher=University of Chicago Law School Secular Legal Society | access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_30555057/satan-at-cu-student-group-brings-satanic-temple | last=Kuta | first=Sarah | title='Satan at CU?' Student group brings Satanic Temple leader to Boulder campus | work=[[Daily Camera]] | date=November 9, 2016 | publication-place=Boulder, Colorado | publisher=[[Prairie Mountain Media]] | access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://usustatesman.com/satanic-temple-co-founder-promotes-respect-secularism/ | last=Berg | first=Alison | title=Satanic Temple co-founder promotes respect, secularism | work=The Utah Statesman | publication-place=Logan, Utah | publisher=Utah State University | date=October 15, 2017 | access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref> and he has been a featured speaker at national conferences hosted by [[American Atheists]],<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.atheists.org/2014/09/press-release-american-atheists-tackles-bible-belt-for-2015-convention/ | last=Muscato | first=Dave | title=American Atheists Tackles Bible Belt for 2015 Convention | publication-place=Cranford, New Jersey | publisher=American Atheists | date=September 16, 2014 | access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref> the [[American Humanist Association]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://conference.americanhumanist.org/schedule2017/graeves/ | title=Lucien Graeves | website=Americanhumanist.org | access-date=November 8, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108205444/http://conference.americanhumanist.org/schedule2017/graeves/ | archive-date=November 8, 2017 | url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Secular Student Alliance]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://secularstudents.org/speakers/LucienGreaves | title=Lucien Greaves | website=Secular Student Alliance | access-date=November 8, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108205700/https://secularstudents.org/speakers/LucienGreaves | archive-date=November 8, 2017 | url-status=dead}}</ref>

Greaves has been instrumental in setting up the [[The Satanic Temple#Protect Children Project|Protect Children Project]], the [[After School Satan]] project, and several political demonstrations and legal actions designed to highlight social issues involving [[religious liberty]] and the [[separation of church and state]].<ref name="NYT1">{{Cite news | title=A Mischievous Thorn in the Side of Conservative Christianity | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/a-mischievious-thorn-in-the-side-of-conservative-christianity.html | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=2015-07-10 | access-date=2015-12-02 | issn=0362-4331 | first=Mark | last=Oppenheimer}}</ref><ref name="RollingStone">{{Cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/satanists-defending-abortion-rights-meet-5-conservatives-freaking-out-about-it-20150506 | title=Satanists Support Abortion Rights, Conservatives Freak Out | last=Marcotte | first=Amanda | date=2015-05-06 | magazine=Rolling Stone | access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref>

Greaves has received many death threats, and deliberately does not use his legal name to avoid threats to his family.<ref name="DET1" /><ref>{{cite book | last=Laycock | first=Joseph P. | date=2020 | title=Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPDGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 | location=New York, NY | publisher=Oxford University Press | pages=37, 72 | isbn=978-0-19-094849-8}}</ref>

Greaves and his colleagues envisioned The Satanic Temple as a "poison pill" in the Church/State debate: [[Satanist]]s asserting their rights and privileges where religious agendas have imposed themselves upon public affairs, serving as a reminder that such privileges are for everybody, and can provide a religious agenda beyond the current narrow understanding.<ref name="vice2013" /> Neither Greaves nor members of The Satanic Temple claim to worship [[Satan]]; instead, their beliefs focus on personal sovereignty, independence, and freedom of will.<ref name="vice2013" />

Greaves appears throughout the 2019 documentary film ''[[Hail Satan?]]'' regarding religious freedoms and early days of The Satanic Temple.<ref name="straight">{{Cite magazine |last=Eisner |first=Ken |date=2019-05-01 |title=A Satanic panic over church and state in Hail Satan? |url=https://www.straight.com/movies/1235221/satanic-panic-over-church-and-state |access-date=2019-05-06 |magazine=[[The Georgia Straight]] |publisher=Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation |language=en |publication-place=Vancouver}}</ref> Greaves contributed the foreword to ''[[The Little Book of Satanism]]'' (2022) by [[La Carmina]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Carmina | first=La | date=October 25, 2022 | title=The Little Book of Satanism | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Little-Book-of-Satanism/La-Carmina/9781646044221 | publisher=Ulysses Press | isbn=978-1-64604-422-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/88497-religion-book-deals-february-9-2022.html | title=Religion Book Deals: February 9, 2022 | publisher=Publishers Weekly | date=February 9, 2022 | access-date=July 27, 2022}}</ref> as well as artwork for multiple endeavors by [[Shiva Honey]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Honey | first=Shiva | year=2020 | title=The Devil's tome: A book of modern Satanic ritual | language=en | publisher=Serpentīnae | isbn=978-1-393-76364-2}}</ref>