The outrage these assholes are feeling is what the rest of us feel every time we see them trying to force their dogma into every facet of society.

Me and my wife are both members of TST and we LOVE the work they do. The Tenets they promote are loving, self-respecting, and do justice towards an ideal world of Individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and critical thinking - i.e. everything that Christianity and modern conservatism in general are eager to suppress. We regularly donate to them, and we constantly purchase stuff through their store to help support them.

The uproar is the point.

The Satanic Temple makes it clear its members do not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural.

But somehow conservative Christians believe that there are huge swaths of people who agree that their religion is 100% correct but worship the weak bad guy character.

(Which is not to mention that there are actually multiple bad guys who got combined, Satan and Lucifer and The Snake were originally different people)

Reading the outrage comments always tickles me lol. Welcome to the point, bitches!

The Satanic Temple does a little trolling.

Satan accepts everyone

Not his fault that God is picky

As someone planning to move to this area soon I want my kiddo involved!

The number of adults in the US that think Satan is a literal being is way too fucking high.

It started as an editor using 'adversary' in the place of what was probably the goddess Anat appealing the head of the pantheon to kill the son of the protagonist like in the earlier Canaanite A Tale of Aqhat as an intro into what was an adaptation of the also earlier Babylonian Theodicy in Job.

But we couldn't have a polytheistic holdover, so suddenly there was a supernatural 'adversary' ('Satan') in a story.

Which in turn spawned fanfiction during the prophet ages where they referred to the supernatural adversary of Job.

Then Hellenistic ideas around Hades (both the place and figure) get added into the mix, and we get the Enochian literature about fallen angels, where the guided katabasis influenced Virgil which later informs Dante's Inferno.

Then King James messes up translating Isaiah and the Latin for the morning star (Lucifer) gets mistaken for a proper name, further tying the supernatural adversary to being one of the Enochian fallen angels. And we get Milton's Paradise Lost.

It's all just mistranslations and fanfiction.

And yet millions of people believe it's actually a thing so much so that they freak out at the idea of any references to it as literally being dangerous.

In 2022.

An age filled with things beyond the wildest imagination of those in antiquity dreaming up miracles and wonders.

We're so beyond fucked as a species.

It would be sad how badly these idiots fail to see the irony when it’s spelled out for them if it wasn’t so funny.

After School Satan Club would be such a great name for a band.

ASS Club.

Nice.

Sad that something like this is even needed but the US is full of bigoted hypocrites that want to turn the country into a religious state.

Conservatives always want to have a free "marketplace of ideas" until it's something they fear.

Of course Tennessee Christians are outraged. The after School Satan Club is most likely way more Christian than they are so there's stiff competition.

good, the more noise they make the more this will spread

The kids are alright 😃

Actively missing the point......... "In a meeting with more than 40 pastors and other religious leaders, the district board chair, Althea E Greene, said: “Satan has no room in this district.”"

They can't without getting rid of all other extra curricular activities & I love that for them.

If it wasn't registered, "After School Satan Club" would be a great name for a punk band.

A comparison between the Church of Satan and the Satanic Temple

Low IQ Christians never learn. They must be old dogs.