Fundie-Scarin’ Funtimes: Satanic Temple Rolls Out ‘After School Satan Clubs’ Just In Time For Fall!

[niyad]

Hell Of A Fine Idea

Fundie-Scarin’ Funtimes: Satanic Temple Rolls Out ‘After School Satan Clubs’ Just In Time For Fall!


You've seen The Bloodsucker Proxy, right?


Our favorite Establishment Clause trolls, the funtimes hellraisers of the Satanic Temple, have announced an exciting new program for the 2016-17 school year: After School Satan Clubs, where your little Damien or Lilith can proudly learn all about rationalism and the separation of church and state, in full equality with the after school Christian clubs which fundagelicals have been establishing in schools since a 2001 Supreme Court decision held that schools must allow religious clubs to meet on school grounds. So if Christian clubs can meet, you bet your sweet ass the Satanic Temple is going to insist on equal time! Or as the “Educatin’ With Satan” FAQ Six-six-sixsplains:

Is Satanism in schools legal? Yes. The Supreme Court ruled in 2001 in the case of Good News Club v. Milford Central School that schools operate a “limited public forum” and that, as such, they may not discriminate against religious speech should a religious organization choose to operate an After School Club on their premises. Christian evangelicals — particularly the Child Evangelism Fellowship — have taken advantage of this ruling ever since. As it is illegal for the schools to discriminate against specific religions or preference others, After School Satan Clubs cannot be denied wherever Christian, or any other religious clubs, operate.


You bet your sweet cloven hooves they’ve got lawyers, too! Since evangelicals, especially the legal activist group the Liberty Counsel, are doing their damnedest to get religion into the public schools, then by Crom, the Satanic Temple isn’t about to have its rationalist viewpoint left out. Kids attending the clubs won’t be casting any hexes (that’s witchcraft, which is totally different!) or sacrificing babies to the Dark Lord; instead, they’ll be introduced to a “uniform syllabus that emphasizes a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious world view,” which probably means they’ll do better in school than the little snots singing about Noah and the arky-arky, too. Looky! They even have a cool video with cornball demonic effects!

But wait, isn’t this a dangerous intrusion of unwelcome religious teachings into our public schools? TOTALLY, especially since they’re taking plain old critical thinking skills and wrapping ’em up in the external trappings of religion. Nobody would get all that upset about a “critical thinking club” after all, so they call it “Satanic” to provoke the god-botherers and make the point that religion doesn’t belong in state-supported schools at all. Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves (a.k.a. Doug Messner) says in a press release appended to the video,

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http://wonkette.com/605037/fundie-scarin-funtimes-satanic-temple-rolls-out-after-school-satan-clubs-just-in-time-for-fall

[flying rabbit]

1. Funky video

[texanwitch]

2. Not a bad idea.

It is hot as hell in Texas right now, 100 plus during the day.

September is not much cooler.

Love the video.

[niyad]

3. you have my deepest sympathies. HOT here, but not quite as bad as down there, and

not a whole lot of humidity.

[texanwitch]

8. It has been hotter then normal.

It has reached 112 with the heat index.

I do not go out during the day.

[niyad]

9. the heat dome has been brutal everywhere. our heat index has hit 101 a couple of times,

but we are not nearly as bad as other places, which I try to remind myself of when I am about to pass out.

yesterday, the forecast high for friday was 72. alas, it has changed to 80+. by friday it will probably be back up to 90 again.

the stores are getting in all their fall and halloween stuff. I think they are just being mean.

blessed lammas, and enjoy the new moon.

[niyad]

4. . . . .

[LWolf]

5. I can't make up my mind

whether to laugh my ass off, applaud a great idea, or be concerned that this video increases the fear and hatred of rational thinking, free inquiry, and fun exponentially among the religious right.

[niyad]

6. since we are intelligent beings, I think we can do all of the above.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. how could those fears and hatreds increase?

They are already at #11 on their amplifier.