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.

  • Hoomod@lemmy.world
    722·
    2 years ago

    Satan accepts everyone

    Not his fault that God is picky

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 years 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
        6·
        2 years ago

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

      • Patches@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 years ago

        Member when he made bet the devil that a man would never give him up no matter how fucking miserable God made him? Job remembers

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Satan’s the one who tempted Eve to eat the apple, though. Without him, that tree would have been left alone.

    • Patches@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      2 years ago

      Satan doesn’t whisper “Believe in me”.

      He shouts “Believe in yourself”.

      Satan is rad as hell.