Satanic clubs, whose members do not worship the devil, usually formed in response to presence of religious groups in schools

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.

The ASSC is a federally recognized nonprofit organization and national after-school program with local chapters across the US. The club is associated with the Satanic Temple, though it claims it is secular and “promotes self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students”.

The Satanic Temple makes it clear its members do not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. Instead Satan is used as a symbol of free will, humanism and anti-authoritarianism.

    • Patches@sh.itjust.works
      531·
      11 months ago

      Satan doesn’t whisper “Believe in me”.

      He shouts “Believe in yourself”.

      Satan is rad as hell.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      451·
      11 months ago

      God is the dickhead that puts a dangerous tree in the garden despite knowing exactly what’s going to happen. God is the asshole that wipes out everyone (even the animals) except one drunkard and his family because God apparently fucked up again. God is the one who creates a place of infinite punishment for finite crimes.

      God is the real villain of the Bible.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        33·
        11 months ago

        And Satan is the hero that fought an omnipotent being knowing he would lose because he wanted freedom more than he wanted victory.

      • HiddenLayer5English
        1·
        11 months ago

        God is omniscient, according to Genesis he also intentionally created every single aspect of humanity, including our curiosity and suggestability, and then intentionally put a tree there, and also created the serpent that would tempt the humans. He knew exactly what would happen well in advance yet chose not to change anything, and still faults the humans he knew would make the mistake which he did nothing to prevent even as it was happening. It’s like if you knew that there is a bug in your code but still got mad at it when it crashes to the point of destroying your computer.

        Finally, riddle me this: Why would God mandate circumcision instead of just making that the original design? And why did he only mandate circumcision up until Jesus died? Was Jesus like a driver update or something that deprecated the old hardware tweaks? And if circumcision was indeed necessary, why did he make it excruciating and dangerous when he already had an existing design for a clean, relatively painless break-away tissue on the tails of geckos that he could have ported over?