Posted on 07/20/2025 11:39:38 AM PDT by ViLaLuz
Two Delaware County, Pennsylvania students are the recipients of $666 in scholarship money each courtesy of the local Satanic club, Satanic Delco. The award was part of Satanic Delco's "Outsider Achievement Award" program.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
The group lists themselves as an independent Satanic congregation," and writes on their site: "We are Satanists. We're your neighbors. We make your coffee, we teach your kids, and you come to our office when you're sick. We are an independent congregation, with no affiliation to any other Satanic groups." They claim to align with the values of "Outsider Satanism."
Of the Outsider Achievement Award, they say that "High School is a critical, formative part of life for most American teenagers. Countless factors converge to define how that experience impacts each young individual. For some students, sports, academics, and groupthink come naturally. But in the shadows of the Homecoming Royalty, football star, and Most Likely To Succeed, lies the outsider."
The students submitted material for consideration for the award. Gramatges submitted music and an essay while Tracy sent in photography and an essay. The award has been ongoing for four years and encourages students to espouse Satanism through writing and art.
Applicants, writes Patch, must "choose one of the values of Outsider Satanism and elaborate on what that value means to them, and how it applies to their lives in an essay, poem, film, song, or other creative medium."
Like other groups that espouse Satanism, they claim to not worship Satan. "We don't worship Satan because Satan isn't real," they state. This is a common cry from Satanic groups such as the national Satanic Temple, which has forced school districts to allow them to offer after school programs on school groups for elementary age through high school.
In recent years, Target featured Satanic designs on LGBTQ merchandise for children and in the fight to force public schools to allow boys into girls bathrooms and changing rooms, protesters have chanted "Hail Satan." Satanic groups have also erected statues of Baphomet, a figure representing Satan, at state houses that allow religious displays for Christmas. The Satanic Temple also view abortion as a religious rite.
Noted Quaker John Wilkinson said in 1836: "One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist: another, perhaps equally fatal, is to make them fancy that he is obliged to stand quietly by, and not to meddle with them, if they get into true silence.
French writer Charles Baudelaire wrote in 1864 about the matter as well. “My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that they don’t exist!” he wrote, per an English translation from 1918. Baudelaire was writing the voice of a pastor.
Satanic Delco claims that "To embody the name Satan means embracing rational inquiry without supernatural or outdated traditions." They claim further that they have the status of a religion despite not believing in a supernatural being because "The figurative representation of Satanism holds just as much meaning for us as the profound convictions we actively advocate for."
*** PA PING ***
Hell of a way indeed.
“We don’t worship Satan because Satan isn’t real,” they state.
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If these youngsters don’t wake up they are in for a horrible surprise.
When you bring religion into public school, this is expected. No one should be shocked.
Growing up in Upper Darby, it was the burnouts who were into Black Sabbath etc who I’d think were Satanists.
The guy looks like a loser.
The girl looks like a normie.
wtf?
If you keep knocking on the Devils door, sooner or later he’ll invite you in.
Russia just banned them.
“We worship Satan but don’t believe in him”
RE: ... they are in for a horrible surprise.
Saint Pio (earlier known as Padre Pio) was confronted by a confident and proud man before confession who told him “You know, I don’t believe in Hell.”
Saint Pio said: “That’s alright. You’ll believe in it when you get there.”
Story also told by Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Good.
How many times have people here compared the current abortion proponents to the child sacrifice abominations of the pagan cultists of ancient times?
That’s right, so don’t go knocking on his door.
One of the most effective tools employed by Satan is his ability to convince people he doesn’t really exist.
Satan as a metaphor for "ultimate concern". Modernist theology with a twist.
while simultaneously promising them things
In reality, they are just an anti-Christian Hate group.
We had a group on campus called the FreeThinkers. It was an echo chamber for anti-Christians and echo chambers tend to make you say stupid things in public. One leader sent a letter to the school newspaper calling religious people “weak-minded”. The next week, a letter replied asking if they thought Dr Martin Luther King Jr was weak-minded and they are also saying Muslims are “weak-minded”. The club disbanded shortly after.
The film, Cabiria, has an intense child sacrifice scene. It was also the first film shown at the White House (it was outside.)
Just more attention seekers hoping to get noticed.
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