Satanists in Florida offer to fill school counselor roles after DeSantis law

Florida Satanists are volunteering to fill school counselor roles after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a law allowing religious chaplains into public schools amid staffing shortages.

“Nothing in the text of the bill serves to exclude us, and no credible interpretation of the First Amendment could. Should a school district now choose to have chaplains, they should expect Satanists to participate as well,” Lucien Greaves, cofounder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, said in a statement...

Back when DeSantis signed the bill in April, he described Satanism as “not a religion” and said its members would not be allowed to participate in the program.

But Greaves said the governor “openly lied to the public” regarding the situation...

They worship the father of lies. Satan’s soldiers should not be allowed to bring their garbage into any part of this country. But, this is prophesized, and will only get worse the closer we get to the tribulation.

Romans 1:28-32

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and rabble always fill the vacuum. But why is there a vacuum? Where is everybody? Why is there a vacuum?

Several factors, not the least of which is media and cultural brainwashing.

When the courts started destroying the normal Christian doctrines in place in our society, this began to normalize apathy to Christian teachings and principles.

The media people also promote anti-Christian ideas and doctrines.

There are also a lot more things for people to do, and so many have dropped out of attending church services. The attendance of church was a social occasion and in the absence of more interesting things to do, many people preferred meeting like minded people in church.

There are a lot of factors regarding how we got here. I only named few.

The bigger question is "What can be done about it? "

I mainly posted to get people to think about it. However, this:

The bigger question is "What can be done about it?"

I think all of your observations are correct. I think you missed a huge one but I'll get to that last.

The only actionable answer I can come up with is to learn more about the Founders, to acculturate to them to become more like them.

As you know, I have the whole audio book thing and it is quite successful. Not as much as I would like - but better than I initially hoped.

However, I've come to notice that the amount of hatred I see when I remind people that the Founding Fathers were themselves protesters and were themselves activists is palpable. Conservatives do not want to remember that part.

"What can be done about it?" We need to be activists and protesters like the Founding Fathers were. Involved, every single day, doing something actionable.

I have not seen any other actionable answer to the question. But it is clear that we cannot vote our way out of this problem. The only way out is to activist our way out, just like the Founding Fathers. They are the "model".

"Stopping this would require so-called conservatives getting off their fat, lazy butts"

I don't think its laziness at all. I think there is a direct causation with the ideology of "I just want to be left alone", which is actually more of a core aspect of conservatism itself. It's a highly contradictory conservative belief upon examination.

"I just want to be left alone" is being murdered. Progressives are murdering "I just want to be left alone" daily.

The challenge is, the very nature of "I just want to be left alone" dictates a gentleman's agreement of "I'll leave you alone too".(cause that's what I want, "I just want to be left alone", I want what you want and I want you to have what I want, which is to be left alone.)

This gentleman's agreement is the suicide pact. It's cyanide, and people are drinking it. The U.S. is dying because of the drinking of this cyanide.

The contradiction is that "I just want to be left alone" needs to be defended. However, by their very nature, "I just want to be left alone" ideologues want to "leave you alone too".

At the end of the day, "I just want to be left alone" is undefended and easy to murder. It has no army. It needs an army, but has none.

"I just want to be left alone" does mean very few will join the school board, will go protest, will join and create non-profit entities such as the now defunct Tea Party Patriots and the hundreds of other non-profits that did for a moment exist in 2009-2010-2011. Become teachers, become historians, become journalists, etc etc.

Look, James O'Keefe should logically have tens of thousands of people who are willing to work for him, for $$free$$, to go out there and make journalists look bad. But why doesn't he have that? In reality, O'Keefe has to pay people because "I just want to be left alone" by their nature wants to "leave you alone too" otherwise he wouldn't have anybody at all. It would be just him, maybe one other guy. I'm not the only activist but we are terribly far and few inbetween.

DiogenesLamp,

this is the one you missed in your correct observations. "I just want to be left alone" We are being slaughtered by the contradiction held within "I just want to be left alone". Getting people to stand up for "I just want to be left alone" to become an army of defenders for "I just want to be left alone" is going to be terribly, terribly difficult. But, that is EXACTLY what the Founding Fathers did. They wanted to be left alone, so they got active, every single day.

This sentence appears contradictory, but it is actually perfectly synchronized. They wanted to be left alone, so they got active, every single day.

(Not meant to spam you, sorry.)

"... But, that is EXACTLY what the Founding Fathers did. They wanted to be left alone, so they got active, every single day. This sentence appears contradictory, but it is actually perfectly synchronized. They wanted to be left alone, so they got active, every single day..."

What I say below may sound like I disagree with you on this, ProgressingAmerica, but in reality, I believe we are in agreement.

We as Conservatives believe in the freedom to be "left alone". That is consistent with Conservatism. We believe that if someone wants to plow their land, drive to work every day to click at a computer, or make videos about flying kites to sell on YouTube, they should have the freedom to do that.

In Orwell's 1984, people were forced to take part in committees they didn't want to be on, join fundraisers to raise money for causes they didn't believe in, and march in marches to support things they didn't support.

Conservatives believe that, if the Constitution were preserved and observed as it should be in a Constitutional Republic, we shouldn't be faced with that dynamic. We would indeed be free to pursue our own interests, our personal goals of Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness, whatever we, as free individuals, determine that to be. As Conservatives, we believe that if people don't want to get involved in these types of activities they are protected from having to do that by the Constitution, and are free to pursue Life, Liberty, and Happiness as they see fit.

And I would agree with that, with one exception. Like it or not, or admit it or not, we are at war. And when you are at war, you are faced with defeat and submission if you ignore it.

It is only in that respect I agree with the tone of your post. We have to face the fact that we are engaged in a civil war already, it just has not turned into a shooting war yet

Today, we have two significant segments of society: Those who believe the Constitution should be maintained and observed, and those who believe the Constitution is archaic and should be changed, ignored, or scrapped.

And co-existence for these two groups is not possible.

It is going to end in only one of two ways:

We will keep the Constitution and observe it.

We will destroy it by either changing it to the point it is no longer a Constitution that protects those whom it governs, or will discard it and become an oligarchy.

Oligarchies, due to human nature and its well known flaws, only follow a single path, and that is not a path, but a Road to Serfdom.

And I agree with some posters who propose that we already live under an oligarchy right now. I maintain that is undeniable.

But I do disagree vehemently with those who say there is no material difference between a Constitutional Republic and an Oligarchy. One is the Rule of Law, the other is The Rule of Man. And the path of The Rule of Man is well understood, if one understands history.

So, if we let these things keep going as they are going, and have been for the past 40-60 years, this is going to turn into a hot civil war. It may not occur in 2024. It may not occur even in the life I have left to live, whatever God determines what that is.

But, if left unchecked, the trajectory of tyranny will inevitably lead to that.

My biggest fear is that, like frogs in a pot of cool water being slowly brought to a boil, too few of us frogs will wake to the realization we are being boiled alive in a steaming cauldron of tyranny in enough time to jump out and save our country.

I have always maintained that it is far easier to fight in the moment and keep from being engulfed and consumed by a creeping tyranny than is to escape a total tyranny once you are in it. Anyone who lived in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany will readily attest to that.

And so, ProgressingAmerica, in the end, I DO agree with you. And that is because we are, and have been for some decades, at war. We need to get our minds right with that, because those who oppose us have their minds right with it. We must match that or face submission and tyranny to them.

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