(OPINION) The Satanic Temple recently opened an after-school “Satan Club” in a Moline, Illinois, elementary school, as part of its nationwide campaign to push back against the Christian Good News Clubs offered to schoolchildren after regular-hour classes.
Parents protested outside the Jane Addams Elementary School in Moline when the first after-school Satan Club met there last month. Last Thursday, a few people came out to protest the club’s second meeting as well. It’s why some say that spiritual warfare is now taking place in America’s public schools.
The Satanic Temple, which runs the program, said students would be offered activities such as science and crafts projects, puzzles, and games — and that they would learn about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative expression, too.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple spokesperson, told Fox News about the clubs, “I’m hoping that with our presence, people can see that good people can have different perspectives, sometimes on the same mythology, but not mean any harm.” Greaves also said, “We’re not including items of religious opinion …
We’re not teaching children about Satanism. They’re just going to know that this is taught by Satanists.” The Satanic Temple is not hiding the fact that it created the clubs to take on the Christian club called the Good News Club — which has become its No. 1 nemesis. Said Greaves, “The after-school Satan Clubs were conceived of in order to give an alternative to [the] religious indoctrination [of] after-school programs.” READ MORE
