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

[niyad]

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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

[Jeff Murdoch]

1. Troll level 666

[Nitram]

2. My only problem with this is that it confounds science with satanism in the minds of christian...

...fundamentalists. We have enough trouble getting them on board to fight climate change as it is. Is pursuing a phony equal time religious strategy the best way to keep religion out of our schools?

[whatthehey]

3. Yes it is

Attempts to get Christians to stop indoctrination by appealing to neutrality and the Establishment clause's intent never work but by Koresh they shut down all religious indoctrination licketty split when religions they object to insist on equal access. It's not just the best way to keep religion limited in schools. It's the only way that demonstrably works.

[niyad]

4. absolutely agree