Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/14/tennessee-school-satan-club-satanic-temple

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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KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 2y

It’s so funny seeing Cristians protest against these clubs that they don’t understand, and the best part is they can’t do shit.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sorry (not sorry), Christians - religious freedom means freedom to practice ALL religions. This is categorically a constitutional matter, and you do not have a legal recourse to halt this (nor should you).

CoolMatt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

Which especially funny because it's part of the same religion, just the "other side"

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y (16 replies)

Godspeed

PeachMan@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 2y (15 replies)

Satanspeed?

Wodge@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y (14 replies)

Beelzebubboost?

RIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 2y (13 replies)

Beelzeboost

Nougat@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y (12 replies)

Accelmodeus

GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2y (11 replies)

Baal Out

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (10 replies)

666th gear

Mok98@feddit.it · 13 pts · 2y

Mephistophelocity

foggy@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Hell yeah

magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Hail yourself

EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hail the flying spaghetti monster!

magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh · 5 pts · 2y

Ramen

Moops@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Freedom of religion!

... As long as it's ours"

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Yes, it is indeed their religion they are protesting.

Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 47 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Better than an after-school christian club ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

athos77@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Well, the reason for the after school Satan club was that they had a pre school Christian club.

r00ty@kbin.life · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Breakfast with God, dinner with the Devil!

blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

How most Christians naturally react through the day due to coping mechanisms that rely on a being that isn't real and can do nothing for you lol.

Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah, and I'd wager it's better than an after-school christian club.

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 2y

The whole idea behind it is pretty genius. Metaphorically speaking, the only people that think there's a supernatural devil behind this club is because they want to shove their belief in their Gods into schools. If one must exist in schools then so must the other.

eighthourlunch@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y

LOL! Good luck with that. You invited me in. I'm not going anywhere. 😈

BeakersBunsen@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Totally read that as Santa and was confused why 1 they made a Santa club and 2 why people were so angry to ban it. Either way bunch of haters and need to be more tolerant like their Jesus was

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 2y

justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

To be fair, in both cases the situation would have been the same: An after-school club with a fictional mascot taken from Christian mythology, protested BY Christians who are ironically the only ones to actually believe that said mascot exists IRL.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Lucifer would be proud.

Magister@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

ASSc

Otherwise_Direction7@monyet.cc · 1 pts · 2y

Damn, the new Hate Die: School Satanic Project TV adaptation looks pretty legit ngl

/joking

Aatube@kbin.social · -18 pts · 2y (1 reply)
roastedDeflator@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

I realised there was another article on the topic, a couple of hours I posted this one. Initially I thought of deleting it but since it was from another outlet, I didn't after all. I just upvoted the first one.

Will be more careful next time.