by Rick Anderson
Lilith Starr, a devil’s advocate in every sense, is in a rush to get her After School Satan Club started.
As founder of the Satanic Temple of Seattle, she’s under pressure from national satanic headquarters — located in the Colonial witch trials city of Salem, Mass. — to launch a counter-strike strike against grade school Christianity by opening an after-school Satan Club.
“I think many people have the misunderstanding that we are some kind of tongue-in-cheek troll group,” said Starr, 44, a Harvard grad who sometimes dresses in church robes and, when circumstances demand, paints her lips and part of her face black.
“But in reality we are a very serious religion, with our own shared narrative, culture and symbols, a code of ethics — our Seven Tenets — and worship in the form of activism.”
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-satanic-after-school-20160928-snap-story.html
Will they have cookies? Seriously though, I would react to this the same way I react to other religious groups poaching young minds in public schools. And that is to say with vociferous objection. It’s time we left our bronze age fairy tales behind us, and figure out new reasons for behaving like decent human beings.
Whatever happened to the school newspaper and Spanish Club?