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Title: Get to know Satan after school! Activists who fight against religion in classrooms are petitioning to set up after school club that is an antidote to Christianity programs
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... vangelical-Christian-club.html
Published: Jul 31, 2016
Author: Kiri Blakeley For Dailymail.com
Post Date: 2016-07-31 08:59:18 by cranky
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Views: 1109
Comments: 5
- The Satanic Temple says if Good News Clubs, an Evangelical Christian after school program, is allowed in schools then it should be too
- The Massachusetts-based activists' After School Satan Club would teach critical thinking and plurality
- It says the Good News Clubs are indoctrinating children into Christianity
- Group doesn't worship the devil but uses an extremely creepy video to promote its club
A Massachusetts-based group of political activists that fight against religion in elementary classrooms will begin petitioning in the fall to set up after school programs to counterbalance Christian after school programs.
A 2001 Supreme Court decision allowed Good News Club, an after school Christian club, to continue to operate in schools, and the Satanic Temple, which has 20 chapters across the US, says this is indoctrinating children into evangelicalism.
The temple's co-founder Doug Mesner, who goes by the name of Lucien Greaves, says: 'It’s critical that children understand that there are multiple perspectives on all issues, and that they have a choice in how they think.'
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The temple doesn't believe in supernatural beings or a Satan however it uses devilish images in its marketing materials
The Satanic Temple, cofounded by Doug Mesner (above, with hooves), aka Lucien Greaves, wants to be in all schools that allow in Good News Clubs, which teaches Evangelical Christianity
Good News Clubs teaches Evangelical Christian gospel and Bible scripture in elementary schools across the nation. Children must have parental permission to attend the club, which is in 3,560 schools, over five percent of all schools, according to The Washington Post.
Mesner added: 'If Good News Clubs would operate in churches rather than public schools, that need would disappear. But our point is that if you let one religion into the public schools you have to let others, otherwise it’s an establishment of religion.'
The after school program will teach children about 'the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors' says the group
Despite the group's distinct demon-themed materials, including a promotional video for its school program that rivals The Blair Witch Project in creepiness, the group says it is not about worshiping Satan but spreading 'a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious worldview' and doing away with the Christian 'preoccupation with sin, fear of Hell, and aversion to critical thinking.'
The group does not believe in supernatural beings of any kind. According to the temple, Satan is merely a construct meant to overturn superstition and tyranny of the human mind.
The children will be asked to do exercises to help them understand the world and the universe from a science-based, rationalist view, says the group on its website.
The group seems confident that schools will allow them to set up shop.
'As it is illegal for the schools to discriminate against specific religions or preference others, cannot be denied wherever Christian, or any other religious clubs, operate,' it says on its website.
The temple says it is only interested in operating in schools that have Good News Clubs in existence but hopes to eventually be in more schools.
'The Satanic Temple does not advocate for religion in schools. However, once religion invades schools, as The Good News Clubs have, The Satanic Temple will fight to ensure that plurality and true religious liberty are respected,' the group says. 'We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors.'
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"will begin petitioning in the fall to set up after school programs to counterbalance Christian after school programs."
Ah. It's to "counterbalance" Christian programs. Sounds fair. I say let them.
Then let's offer an anti-gay program. An anti-black program. Anti- women, anti-disabled, and anti-Jew programs.
You know. To "counterbalance" the others.
#2. To: misterwhite, cranky (#1)
This is all about no morals and getting naive little girls to have sex with.
This is a truly mentally distorted person.
Then let's offer an anti-gay program. An anti-black program. Anti- women, anti-disabled, and anti-Jew programs.
Try just having an European only group and see the progressive lose it!
60's counter culture is alive and doing well in America. You would have to go to Russia to see old American values!
#3. To: cranky (#0)
spreading 'a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious worldview' and doing away with the Christian 'preoccupation with sin, fear of Hell, and aversion to thinking'We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors.'
After School Satan Club would teach critical thinking and plurality
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#4. To: misterwhite (#1)
You know. To "counterbalance" the others.
"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men , have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;...that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. ""I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
#5. To: Justified (#2)
"This is all about no morals and getting naive little girls to have sex with."
Fast talkin' guys
with strange red eyes
Have put things in your head
and started your mind to wonderin'
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