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Related: About this forumAn After School Satan Club could be coming to your kid's elementary school
It's a hot summer night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered in the crimson-walled living room of a Victorian manse in this city renowned for its witch trials in the 17th century. They're watching a sepia-toned video, in which children dance around a maypole, a spider crawls across a clown's face and eerie, ambient chanting gives way to a backward, demonic voice-over. The group chuckles with approval.
They're here plotting to bring their wisdom to the nation's public elementary school children. They point out that Christian evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives of America's children through after-school religious programming in public schools, and they appear determined to give young students a choice: Jesus or Satan.
"It's critical that children understand that there are multiple perspectives on all issues, and that they have a choice in how they think," said Doug Mesner, the Satanic Temple's co-founder.
On Monday, the group plans to introduce its After School Satan Club to public elementary schools, including one in Prince George's County, petitioning school officials to allow them to open immediately as the academic year starts. Chapter heads from New York, Boston, Utah and Arizona were in Salem on July 10 talking strategy, with others from Minneapolis, Detroit, San Jose, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Florida participating online. The promotional video, which feels like a mash-up of a horror movie trailer and a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, will serve to promote the new club along with its website - Afterschoolsatan.com.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/ct-satan-club-20160731-story.html
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)as a fallen angel.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)No thanks - "wise" ones.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)jonno99
(2,620 posts)you sure showed him...
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Initech
(100,079 posts)stage left
(2,962 posts)Where people get all up in arms if you don't go to church. And Church means, for the most part, fundamental Christianity.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)since they were little of telling them, "Do not read these books. Do not even look at them," pointing to my books by Aleister Crowley which are kept close to where I sit and read in the living room.
They've turned out pretty well, open-minded liberals with a healthy attitude towards other people's religious beliefs.