Posted on 09/29/2016 10:08:34 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
A school in Portland, Oregon, has granted approval to a local Satanic Temple’s request to set up an after-school programme for pupils.
Children at Sacramento Elementary School, which educates pupils aged between 5 and 10, will have the opportunity to attend the Satanic club’s inaugural meeting on October 19.
Satanic Temple spokesman Finn Rezz told Oregon Live the club would focus on "on science and rational thinking," promoting "benevolence and empathy for everybody" – while providing an alternative voice to the Bible-centred “Good News Club”.
On its After School Satan Club website, the Satanic Temple says it has been starting after school clubs to provide an alternative to evangelical Christian organisations that offer similar programmes in many schools across the US.
“Currently, the number of After School Satan Clubs (ASSC) is limited, as the program is very new,” the Temple says. “However, ASSC has generated a massive wave of interest immediately upon being announced.
“Across the nation, parents are concerned about encroachments by proselytizing evangelicals in their public schools, and are eager to establish the presence of a contrasting voice that helps children to understand that one doesn’t need to submit to superstition in order to be a good person.
“Our goal, ultimately, is to place an ASSC in every school where the Good News Clubs, or other proselytizing religious groups, have established a presence.”
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Those have been in public schools for generations, only they used to be called the "Young Democrats".
Just in time for HALLOWEEN
Satan has been at work in the schools for generations. The only difference is now he is moving into the open.
Science and rational thinking to promote benevolence and empathy? How does that work?
From Tim Keller’s latest book – Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
…Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov sarcastically summarized the ethical reasoning of secular humanism like this: “Man descended from apes, therefore we must love one another.” The second clause does not follow from the first. If it was natural for the strong to eat the weak in the past, why aren’t people allowed to do it now? I am not, of course, arguing that we should not love one another. Rather, I’m saying that, given the secular view of the universe, the conclusion of love or social justice is no more logical than the conclusion to hate or destroy. These two sets of beliefs—in a thorough-going scientific materialism and in a liberal humanism—simply do not fit with one another. Each set of beliefs is evidence against the other.Many would call this a deeply incoherent view of the world. If the values of secular humanism cannot be inferred or deduced from a materialistic universe, then where did they come from?
- P42
Nietzsche’s point is this. If you say you don’t believe in God but you do believe in the rights of every person and the requirement to care for all the weak and the poor, then you are still holding on to Christian beliefs, whether you will admit it or not. Why, for example, should you look at love and aggression—both parts of life, both rooted in our human nature—and choose one as good and reject one as bad? They are both part of life. Where do you get a standard to do that? If there is no God or supernatural realm, it doesn’t exist."… Even Nietzsche, however, cannot escape his own scalpel. He blasted secular liberals for being inconsistent and cowardly. He believed that calls for social bonding and benevolence for the poor and weak meant “herd-like uniformity, the ruin of the noble spirit, and the ascendency of the masses.” He wanted to turn from the “banal creed” of modern liberalism to the tragic, warrior culture (the “Ubermensch” or “Superman”) of ancient times. He believed the new “Man of the Future” would have the courage to look into the bleakness of a universe without God and take no religious consolation. He would have the “noble spirit” to be “superbly self-fashioning” and not beholden to anyone else’s imposed moral standards.
All of these declarations by Nietzsche compose, of course, a profoundly moral narrative. Why is the “noble spirit” noble? Why is it good to be courageous, and who says so? Why is it bad to be inconsistent? Where did such moral values come from, and what right does Nietzsche have, by his own philosophy, to label one way of living noble or good and other ways bad? 67 In short, he can’t stop doing what he tells everyone else to stop doing.
- P47-49
Geezzzzzzzzz.
The devil you say?
Is there nothing that the people of OR will reject from the left?
You end up with something like a sorcerer’s apprentice situation. You can get the brooms all sweeping, but you can’t stop it or even organize it in any sensible manner.
It might TAKE experiences like this to show just how stupid it is.
FWIW, I doubt that what they call “Satanism” is anywhere close to as evil a belief system as can exist. It’s a kind of Halloweened out doctrine that needs a lot of virtue to remain in order to not utterly collapse.
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Dare I ask, is parental permission required to join this club?
For other faith based activities, it is.
“now he is moving into the open”
Yes, indeed. Have you seen the various youtube videos of the swiss tunnel ceremony? OVERTLY satanic IMO.
Yes, I’ve seen it. I heard a pastor mention the ceremony in a sermon so I went and looked it up. The elites are steering this world into a very dark place and they seem to have picked up their pace.
Do they have afterschool Catechism classes?
This would have been unthinkable even 15 years ago.
I like to laugh at the absurdities of the public school system, but this isn’t funny at all.
This would never happen in eastern Oregon.
Just makes me think that mass collapse or war or something is just around the corner. It cannot continue in this rapid steep descent too much longer without very serious repercussion, and I mean that in a “God is in control” kind of way.
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