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

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    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).

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      7 months ago

      Which especially funny because it’s part of the same religion, just the “other side”

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    7 months ago

    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.

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    7 months ago

    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

    • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      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.

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      7 months ago

      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.