Religion and its opposition exist in uneasy tension in our democracy. Some years ago, it was decided that instead of making religion mandatory in schools, government should allow religious organizations to submit materials for use by students.
Recently, someone called their bluff. In particular, The Satanic Temple wants to supply religious pamphlets about Satanism to students, much as other religions do for their respective beliefs. According to the organization, they are trying to stay competitive with other religions:
“If a public school board is going to allow religious pamphlets and full Bibles to be distributed to students — as is the case in Orange County, Florida — we think the responsible thing to do is to ensure that these students are given access to a variety of differing religious opinions,” Greaves said.
The Satanic Temple is best known for their ongoing attempts to erect a Satanic monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol where a 10 Commandments monument is displayed.
While we avert our eyes from the ongoing attempts of humans to govern themselves, we encourage you to view the book The Satanic Childrens Big Book of Activities in PDF format and perhaps spread it to children in your area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVuQhDAhRw
Awesome! Explore alternative religions!
Satanism- the defender of inclusivity, patience and open mindedness. The religion that dispels fear and ignorance…….Seems like it belongs in a Public School afterall
This group has the idealogical depth of a puddle of hippie piss. Worse attention whores than LaVey’s club of narcissistic clowns. Fuck these people and fuck supporting them.
Thank you, yes, exactly etc. This is about as much a religion as reddit atheist nerdery is a religion. Actually it may be slightly more obnoxious.
Exactly.
It is idiotic to take ‘Satanism’ seriously.
However, if the goal is to prove a point about state sponsored religion and also pisses off a lot of Jewish-fairy tale-lovers — why not?
we simply need to relearn how to appease his wrath before it’s too late. sacrifice virgins upon the altar seemed to work pretty ok.
tiny midget, was it you I saw that got thrown about 3 meters into the air after trying to kick start some huge 1200 cc motorbike out the side of a club in NJ last week?
Don’t be fooled, kids getting into ‘satanism’ is just another extension of hippie individualist everyone’s-special humanism. Satanism is symbolic; its core message is that as a human, you’re the center of the universe and your “freedom” is its own end. We should know better than that here. Reality > your emotions.
Can’t help but agree with your assessment. I am actually surprised to see DM.org promoting garbage like this, trolling or not…..