Allow 'After-School Satan' programs or face costly lawsuits, Washington state school told

Isn't the constitution

an inconvenient thing for Christian propagandists? They canonize fallen soldiers, who die 'for' our constitution/country, yet want to deny the rights guaranteed in it. As for Satanists being pure evil...well, just listen to those same 'Christians' cackle about the deaths of thousands of innocent Muslims and their championing of the criminal state of Israel...as if they have the moral high ground. If they had just stayed out of the schools, this 'problem' would never have occurred. Don't even get me started on child abuse/paedophilia and the 'church'...and I do mean all of them. So, again, who's evil?

What a mishmash

This 'Satanic Church' is Satanism's version of the Universal Unitarian Church. It stands for nothing, and believes nothing (which will, no doubt, make it highly popular!) It's 'dedicated to Satanic practice', but asserts there is no such thing as Satan. It's dedicated to rationality, benevolence, empathy, common sense, and justice, while rejecting inquiry into what these non-material ideals might be founded in. It empowers 'individual will' driven by personal conscience, but hasn't a clue what constitutes a conscience, or why it should exist. It enshrines 'science', but is entirely naive of the extent to which modern science is constrained by belief (hypothesis.) It asserts that people are 'fallible', but has no basis for understanding what the subjective experience of 'failure' is founded in. It rejects the 'supernatural' but embraces supernatural symbology that points emphatically to experiences they claim have no reality. It embraces 'relentless inquiry', but emphatically limits such inquiry to sense-based experience. It warns against 'belief' as being the equivalent of 'submission', but advocates for belief in submission to a materialistic belief system. It proclaims its 'outsider status', promoting the idea that each individual should be free to define Satanism however they want, but acknowledges that it serves the human need for unifying practice and community, and promotes political activism, which is nothing other than the power of the group to define the social experience of the whole group.

In short, this "church" is designed to appeal to the most naive and self-deluded of people, who imagine that they can spout words based on inner experience, without acknowledging the reality of an inner world. If it was freedom that they actually supported, they would advocate for providing children examples and models of instances in which people rely on belief to guide their actions (whether those beliefs are traditionally religious or materialistic,) and provide feedback regarding behavior choices and their effects, but otherwise leave them alone to formulate their beliefs in their own time and their own way. Invasions of this freedom include saluting the flag, singing songs of loyalty to the school or government, reciting pledges, or wearing, drawing, or promoting the colors/symbols of a particular group's belief system. And yes, this includes the inverted pentagram! Premature indoctrination short-circuits the essential process of forming adult judgment, leaving people vulnerable to the psychopathic monsters that make use of childhood indoctrination to manipulate and control adults.