# \\m/ After-school Satan Club!  \\m/

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-after-school-satan-club-m/761714>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-after-school-satan-club-m/761714 "2016-08-04T06:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-after-school-satan-club-m/761714/1 "2016-08-04T06:35:16Z")

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> The Satanic Temple contacted nine public school districts across the country this week seeking to start after-school Satan programs. In all but one district, religious clubs are operated by the Child Evangelism Fellowship’s Good News Clubs, in which students can study the Bible and pray, according to temple co-founder Lucien Greaves.
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> Several districts contacted by The Associated Press said they were reviewing the group’s request and noted their facilities were available to community groups.

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> The Satanic Temple, based in Massachusetts with chapters in several states, said it wants to counter well-funded fundamentalist Christian organizations that it believes are eroding the separation of church and state in public schools. Greaves said the after-school program would show “that people can be of different religious opinions and still be moral, upright people.”
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> “We think that when kids are being exposed to the idea that they will burn in hell and other supernatural ideas, that there is a positive upshot to being exposed to the presence of a satanic afterschool program,” he said.

]([http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c77bb9443c94e5ebeb24a8b536f9a3f/schools-receive-request-after-school-satan-club](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c77bb9443c94e5ebeb24a8b536f9a3f/schools-receive-request-after-school-satan-club))I am not a member of the Satanic Temple but I do love the good work they do!

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-after-school-satan-club-m/761714/2 "2016-08-04T07:09:49Z")

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It’s got to be some clever bit of Christian reverse psychology. It’s well-known that one of the most effective ways to get kids to reject something is to make it the focus of a super-lame after-school club. All over the country, these Satan clubs will spring up and the churches will fill up with kids who want to rebel by getting into Jesus.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-after-school-satan-club-m/761714/3 "2016-08-04T08:20:16Z")

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There’s already another thread.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=799976&highlight=Satan](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=799976&highlight=Satan)