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Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school (www.theguardian.com)

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Community members in a Tennessee school district want to banish Satan from their children’s halls after the formation of a new club was announced.

The After School Satan Club (ASSC) wants to establish a branch in Chimneyrock elementary school in the Memphis-Shelby county schools (MSCS) district.

Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9594849

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[–] Maven 1 points 1 year ago

After School Satan is a program of The Satanic Temple, they're a religion in name only. More like a civil rights group who uses the guise of a religion to prove a point. Satan as a symbol of freedom, not as a literal deific figure.

After School Satan is an after-school club meant as a parody and foil to things like the "Good News Club", but instead of teaching religion, they teach science and rationalism, play board games, and do arts n crafts, while religious proselytizing is forbidden at the club in any form, including of Satanism.