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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.

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.

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[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don't underestimate the evangelicals, they will cut off their nose to store their face and will cancel all the after school programs over this.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 52 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Don’t underestimate the evangelicals, they will ignore the laws and act like martyrs when punished for it. Then they will run for office as defenders of the constitution and church, get elected, push even more evangelical agenda on everyone, be exposed as homosexuals, retire and live comfortably ever after.

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

This guy understands evangelicals.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah they don’t want fair universally applies laws. They want preferential treatment.

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

There needs to be some hard karma for these people, and hard karma is synthetic and not supernatural. This happens repeatedly because there is no hard karma.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

They literally can't get away with cancelling all after-school programs.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but then they won’t have a nose and we’ll have a court case to win so

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Just remember what the SCOTUS looks like now.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

If SCOTUS did that then I'm sure there would be (checks notes) no consequences whatsoever.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'm not convinced they aren't itching for the right case to come along to strip seperation of church and state to declare an official state religion.

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me that's sarcasm? The GOP literally just refused to confirm anyone he nominated.

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And he should've gone to war with them over it instead of assuming that he would win support at next election. McConnell's "rationale" was "let the American people decide!"

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How? What political calculus results in McConnell releasing the hold?

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"calculas"

That's why Dems always lose.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok? What magical combination of incentives results in McConnell letting Obama nominate a judge?

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surrounding the Capital with trooos until McConnell does his goddamn job, and meanwhile charging him with treason.

And I dont wanna hear about the goddamn "rules". McConnell bltantly shit all over the Constitution and everyone just fucking sat there and didnt do shit. That's why we have fascism now: pussies whine and do nothing.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

What are you going to do? Shoot him? What does Kentucky do then? Do you think the next leader of the Senate is going to roll over? Or is Congress going to impeach that president?

We could speed run a civil war, sure. That's certainly one idea.