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Satan Worship and Primary Schools
Not a joke, not the Babylon Bee, this is the flyer from a real school in Chesapeake, Virginia, just four minutes from the Walmart where a store manger killed six November 22nd before taking his own life. Shocked parents then received this from the school’s principal (emphasis mine):
Dear Families,
Chesapeake Public Schools (CPS) is committed to open communication and transparency with our families. For that reason, you are receiving this letter to ensure you have accurate information.
The School District has long held policies and procedures in place which allow varied community groups to use our publicly funded facilities outside of the school day. This is common practice among school districts around the state and nation. Over the years, different religious groups have requested and been allowed to rent our facilities after hours. By law, CPS cannot discriminate based on beliefs among groups wishing to rent our facilities.
Consistent with the law as detailed above and the criteria set out in the CPS Board policy, the School District has approved a building use request from an organization known as the “After School Satan Club” (ASSC) to host gatherings after school hours at B.M. Williams Primary School. Students must have parental permission to attend any after school event hosted by any outside organization.
It is important to note that CPS does not endorse any of the activities or content of groups that host events on school district property outside the instructional day. It is also important to note that the ASSC is not a School District-approved club, and no District employee is acting as a club sponsor.
We understand that this decision may be surprising and possibly even upsetting to some. Please know that we are committed to working to minimize any distractions this news may create, while ensuring our focus is always on providing a safe and secure learning environment for our students.
Sincerely,
Brighid Gates, Principal
Well, I guess if they minimize the distractions it’s all good. After all, it’s “tons of fun”.
It has been obvious for some time that our institutions no longer serve us. Now they begin to provide useful clarity on who they now serve. If government run schools provide these kinds of results, isn’t it time we moved on from the experiment? Would even voucher programs be sufficient for parents to address this? Will agitated parents addressing school board meetings in response to this be harassed as domestic terrorists by the Biden Justice Department? Should any parent be forced to send their child to a school where the Brighid Gates’ of this society facilitate the access of Satanists to our children?
Prayers are welcome and appreciated.
Published in Religion & Philosophy
Doors opened a long time ago. Satan’s spawn have been shooting up schools ever since.
If murder is illegal, it is because it is fundamentally evil. People have the right to outlaw gross unmitigated evil.
The question remains, honestly, what do —
Benevolence and Empathy
Critical Thinking
Problem solving
Creative Expression (or anything at all creative)
Personal Sovereignty and
Compassion
have to do with the name satan, or “adversary”?
It’s like making lollipops out of elderberry wine with one teaspoon full of arsenic, half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide — and calling them delicious and nutritious, mentally stimulating, expressive and compassionate tasty treats for children.
From wiki:
From the Belly Of The Beast itself (or its maw?):
Frankly I think they’re just trolling you.
The IN school Satan Club has been operating so well, too…
The more secular society becomes, the more situations like this will pop up. Liberty cannot long endure without religious virtue. Evil will twist anything to the destruction of the good, even liberty.
Hanneman is dead from alcohol and collected Nazi stuff, King is a short, bald Church of Satan member. Nevertheless, their indefatigable production and work ethic should be appreciated.
Like Hillsdale, they can always refuse the money. I still think the money should be offered.
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The country was founded on ordered liberty, not license. Liberty ordered to the good of individuals, families, and society.
Yes, of course, they’re trolling conservatives and Christians. But, like all the sexual deviancy and transgender nonsense, the fact that our kids are targeted is vile and wicked. What do you call people corrupting and stealing the innocence of children? I call them evil. It isn’t cute or funny. It’s the sign of a culture rapidly approaching its demise.
My kids are no longer school age so this is easy for me to say, but how any parent could subject her child to government schools is simply beyond my ability to fathom. Oh, the kids need socialization! BS. They need to not have their minds warped by Godless leftist sickos.
I’m at the point where I wouldn’t even trust public charter schools. Defund public education. And then burn it down and piss on the ashes.
I couldn’t find any evidence King was ever a member of the CoS. All I found was this article where he’s quoted, “I can get into anything I write about. I can write about serial killers; I can be a [redacted] Satanist. I’m not a Satanist, I’m an atheist, but I write the best satanic lyrics on the [redacted] planet.” As far as being short and bald, that’s just genetics.
Why didn’t didn’t they just name it the After School Democratic Party Club and avoid all the controversy?
That is the attitude they are counting on. It’s exactly how we got to where we are today. Far to much go-along-to-get-along on our side…too much take-a-mile-if-given-an-inch on the other side.
Well, our culture was significantly more homogeneous prior to the 20th Century. When the Founders wrote the Constitution, did they envision that Muslims would also be protected? Likely not. What about Hindus or Shintos? Also no, but part of the amazing nature of their work is that we can be tolerant of many religions. The problem arises with Satanists and Patsafarians in that they aren’t actual religions, but rather one or more of mentally unstable people, grifters, comedians, or evangelicals atheists.
As someone else pointed out, our system requires a moral people, but we lack that inherent morality, undermined by the left for decades in favor of untrammeled personal satisfaction (such a easy sell also, yay).
Is Satanism a religion? I don’t know what the legal definition is, but here is a definition that makes sense to me: “Religion is the moral virtue by which a person is disposed to render to God the worship and service he deserves.” (Source)
How do you feel about non-theistic religions, like Buddhism?
It is a problem with religions and beliefs that are hostile to our beliefs and even so hostile the two can’t live with each other.
Do Buddhists believe in God? I don’t think they do but I’m not really sure. A quick internet search indicated that they don’t.
That’s what “non-theistic” means.
So how does that square with your definition of religion? Would Buddhism be protected under your theory?
Welcome back to the comments, Happy Grandma! It’s been a while!
I’m just walking through this and I don’t have a theory worked out. I’m not a philosopher nor am I a theologian. I would like to see the word “religion” rehabilitated. Probably won’t happen but one can always dream.
My understanding is that there are Buddhists who have spiritual beliefs and there are people who follow Buddhist philosophies but do not believe in spirits or an afterlife.
Buddhists believe in reincarnation, so no afterlife unless you attain enlightenment (I think).
I’m not really interested in Buddhism, but there are many sects and opposing sects in Buddhism. Most of them relate to existence after death, and incorporeal and spiritual matters rather than physical and philosophical.
I generally consider, in common parlance, any belief in the spiritual and particularly the supernatural to be the key distinction of any religion. However, believing the Bible, I view true religion this way, and it goes against the popular view:
“Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
Reincarnation IS afterlife. Physical life after physical life, which is life after death, then life again. And this may include immortality of the soul, though the “soul” may be different than commonly perceived in the Christian West.
And then there’s union with the godhead, which is life and existence, though perhaps not with any “soul-like” personal individuality.
How else could it work with a pluralistic society….. who gets to decide what are the acceptable belief systems? Do they hold a local referendum to determine what the local standards are?
Is Satan a fallen angel? Is that considered a god?
Satan is a fallen angel and they pose as a false gods when it suits them.
No. An angel is a created being. God is the uncreated Creator. Totally different.
What Satan is good at is making false promises to alleviate temporal suffering. Sound familiar?