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Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school
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Satanists: We picked the name to bring attention to all the things you can get away with if you call yourself a religion
Conservative: I'm not listening! THEY WORSHIP THE DEVIL!
Satanists: See? It's working.
The "After-school Humanist Club" would not be having articles written about it.
Things you can get away with such as starting a club? That's never been against the rules.
So why are people concerned that The Satanic Temple is starting a club? Are they concerned that they are indoctrinating children and teaching them about Satan? Because that's the After School Christian Club doing that.
Why are christians concerned about a group who's stated purpose is to be hostile to them? One reason jumps out at me.
Existing is hostile? What have they done besides start a club?
That is not their stated purpose. You invented a purpose, then pretended they stated it.
Of the two groups, a Christian Church/group is far more likely to have long conversations or services about how TST is bad and wrong, than TST is to have the same conversation about Christianity specifically.
This is Christians believing they are the One True Faith so anyone trying to get religion out of politics and policy must be targeting them specifically.
Why does they call themselves Satanists then?
Do you not read other people's posts, or are you being completely disingenuous?
https://lemmy.ca/comment/5701962
That links to this entire thread but I'm guessing it's supposed to be one of the comments that says Satanism has nothing to do with Satanism and the name was only picked to troll Christians. The end goal is to be sued so they can countersue and do damage to religious institutions. You've seen those comments right? If none of that is true why call themselves Satan worshippers specifically?
So you're just completely disingenuous then.
You're trying to be tautological here:
Note that at no point do they call themselves "Satanists"
They have no interest in damaging religious institutions, near as I can tell they have no problem with religions doing whatever they want in their own places of worship. The end goal is stopping religious overreach and keeping religion from being forced into public spaces. Anywhere you think it's inappropriate for TST to be it is just as inappropriate for any other religion to be.
They specifically don't: