The Lord SATAN!
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“Look at the range of our students the children suffering from mental health issues, suicide, anxiety, depression all these things are off the chart and my heart goes out to these kids,” one resident at the meeting said. “More than ever we need a God in this world and this proposal in the opposite direction.”
Being indoctrinated into Christianity at an early age gave me undue anxiety throughout my youth. The Christian response to suicidal thoughts is, “don’t commit suicide or else you’ll go to hell when you die.” Have mental issues? Don’t seek treatment - prayer will cure you! Are you feeling gay or transgender? That’s a sin. Stop being sinful! #ThanksImCured
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Dillsburg is only a few miles away from Dover Pennsylvania. Folks may remember an attempt to get “Intelligent Design” stuffed into the science curriculum in 2005.
It did not end well for the school board.
Brian
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Different organization. This is the Satanic Temple, not the Church of Satan.
Very different.
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And that goes against the agenda of the FDC:
'Keep 'em stupid & keep ‘em scared’
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Man, the Satanic Temple is like the anti-Westoro Baptist Church.
Kudos to them.
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Sounds like all the students who aren’t Christian (or at least, not anti-everyone-else Christians) are going to have to join the club in order to have a place to share their beliefs. I mean, since no other religious club is allowed, it must be a club for everyone…right?
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Yet you don’t offer a link?
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That always means the IRS gave them charity status, which doesn’t mean recognized at all.
https://www.erieri.com/Form990Finder/Details/Index?EIN=823404757
Salem, MA.
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The only way for governments to avoid recognizing some groups as “religious” and not others would be to make no distinction at all between religious and non-religious groups
… which would be fine by me
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There is only one.
- Father Lankester Merrin
Is there a typo there? Or is this resident supporting the formation of the Satan club alongside the existing Christian ones?
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What, what was that about blue cheese dressing?!
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I picture that meeting as looking like the scene in the old Bloom County comic when it is announced at the local Moral Majority or such that the Rolling Stones will be playing a concert at the local elementary school.
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This apparently
Anton LaVey being the founder of The Church of Satan and the above being a quote from “Saints and Sinners” by Lawrence Wright, a collection of profiles on various religious figures.
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