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Related: About this forumA Georgia School District May Be Sued After Ignoring Requests for an After School Satan Club
August 28, 2016
by Hemant Mehta
Still Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia is home to a (Christian) Good News Club. And since Fred Mephisto, the head of the local chapter of The Satanic Temple, is a graduate of the same District, hes been leading the charge to make sure the school also offers an After School Satan club this year.
But its not going very well. Thats in part because the District refuses to even say if it received his application. (The article is behind a paywall.)
We havent heard anything back, Mephisto said.
Mephisto, who said he graduated from a Cobb school, said the temple views the districts lack of response as the district denying the application.
They seem to think that if they ignore him, hell just go away. Theyre wrong.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/08/28/a-georgia-school-district-may-be-sued-after-ignoring-requests-for-an-after-school-satan-club/
I hope he sues. He's an idiot.
http://fmephisto.livejournal.com/profile
louis-t
(23,295 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)--imm
rug
(82,333 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Wonderful senses of humor.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)love the Satanists who are taking that rule and running with it for all they are worth.
rug
(82,333 posts)Neither is the Church of Bacon.
Or Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)I support them wholeheartedly in their endeavors. If you let invisible sky men worshipers in, then you need to let satanists in.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Are you really surprised that one feels the satanists are a joke and shouldn't be allowed in?
Are you really surprised one would attempt to obfuscate the entire point of what the satanists are trying to accomplish here?
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Someone's faith is threatened by the big mean satanists.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)And to older white Christian males in this country, that's the one thing that scares the Jesus out of them. No pun intended.
rug
(82,333 posts)I also surmise you have difficulty discerning an agenda driven political stunt from religion.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Schools. If you allow your choice of religion, then satanists have equal time. You really should have kept religion out of our public education system .
rug
(82,333 posts)This is a stunt.
I hope he sues. I'd love to read his deposition.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)stunt on one hand and a violation of the Constitution on the other. For my part I have no issue with stunts, but violating the Constitution I find very serious. It seems as though you may feel differently and are willing to tolerate a little Constitution busting, but if trouble makers come along and pull stunts that reveal that state of affairs you want them at the very least shamed for their temerity.
rug
(82,333 posts)It seems as though you are willing to tolerate counterproductive stunts if you find them amusing.
I can only imagine what stunts you would support in Alabama in 1962. Maybe a Satanist sit-in at Woolworth's.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)it provides clear example of the consequence of allowing religion where it doesn't belong.
What would be wrong with Satanists sitting in at the Woolworth counters? Do you think lunch counter sit-ins were stunts?
rug
(82,333 posts)Your last statement demonstrates it.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Your privilege is showing.
rug
(82,333 posts)Your willful ignorance is showing.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Your privilege is still showing.
rug
(82,333 posts)Your willful ignorance is growing.
Oh, wait. You've boasted of your attendance at a high school seminary. Maybe it isn't willful.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Do you think that the American National Catholic Church is a religion? They aren't recognized by the RCC, and I have added to the ways I've been excommunicated by attending a service at one of their shrines in Wisconsin.
Just because someone says this Satanist group isn't a religion doesn't mean they aren't.
I'm sure I'll just get more or nothing from you.
rug
(82,333 posts)The difference is they believe what they're saying.
Greaves and his acolytes don't.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Fix The Stupid
(948 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Predictably.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Did someone peddling invisible skymen step into the room?
rug
(82,333 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)They believe in the self.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism
rug
(82,333 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)It just shows you don't understand satanism.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)arbiter of all true religion.
rug
(82,333 posts)tonedevil
(3,022 posts)which religions are real enough to sponser an after-school program. You are quick to name those which are not so I thought you fancied yourself the expert.
rug
(82,333 posts)Such a clever acronym.
You want to learn? Just keep your eyes open.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)to see you get out of sorts over something. Granted its not anything substantive, but we shouldn't expect much out of you.
rug
(82,333 posts)Generally that indicates a lack of confidence in one's own views.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)But it seems obvious nobody in Atlanta, LA, Portland, Pensacola, SLC, Seattle, Springfield, Tucson, or DC will start an in-school After School Satan club sponsored by a NYC group that has a small chapter in Detroit
School administrators and school boards usually like to focus locally and don't like hostile controversy