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TexasTowelie

(111,322 posts)
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 01:02 AM Oct 2016

Satanic leader: After-school clubs send positive message

SALEM, Mass. -- The Satanic Temple is waging religious battles along a variety of fronts nationwide, and its co-founder says it's just getting started.

The 3-year-old organization is fighting to get a nearly 9-foot, 1.5-ton statue of the goat-headed idol Baphomet placed on the Arkansas Capitol grounds as a counterpoint to a planned Ten Commandments monument.

Members have also proposed "After School Satan Clubs" in elementary schools from Oregon to Georgia where evangelical Christian "Good News Clubs" are operating.

And they've been pushing city councils from Alaska to Massachusetts to allow Satanists to give the opening prayer at public meetings — just as Christian, Jewish and other religious clerics have long done.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article111004647.html

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Satanic leader: After-school clubs send positive message (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
I'm not religious, but Satan? rusty quoin Oct 2016 #1
What's wrong with Satan? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2016 #4
Was ASS Club really the best name they could up with? stone space Oct 2016 #2
! TexasTowelie Oct 2016 #3
I feel like the kids are being set up here. Or did nobody notice? stone space Oct 2016 #5
Agreed. FWIW, I've made the same point about the club name: jonno99 Oct 2016 #6
Oops - somebody over on the other thread is hyper-sensitive. jonno99 Oct 2016 #7
 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
2. Was ASS Club really the best name they could up with?
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:52 AM
Oct 2016

Last edited Mon Oct 31, 2016, 08:57 AM - Edit history (1)

"After School Satan Clubs"


 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
5. I feel like the kids are being set up here. Or did nobody notice?
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 10:59 AM
Oct 2016

Using my vast psychic powers, I can forsee problems.



jonno99

(2,620 posts)
7. Oops - somebody over on the other thread is hyper-sensitive.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 02:51 PM
Oct 2016

However, the point remains that while there are high-fives all around about the "cleverness" of the ASS Club, I simply find it amusing - as in the end no one will care, and it is doubtful that any kids will actually attend - for long...

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