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Anti-religion After School Satan Clubs expand to Connecticut elementary school





LEBANON, Connecticut (LifeSiteNews) – Yet another public school is allowing an “After School Satan Club” to take root, this time in Connecticut and for children as young as elementary school level.
The Satanic Temple (TST) is a secular-leftist group that purports to embrace Satan’s name as a “symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority” while not believing that God, the devil, or other supernatural concepts literally exist. Its primary mission is to agitate for an array of leftist causes, including legal abortion and LGBT “pride,” with the Satanic branding helping draw attention to its antics via shock value.
Among its activities in recent years have been “After School Satan Clubs” in various school districts across the country. A handout for one such club distributed earlier this year at a Colorado school offers an example of how TST aims to present such clubs, advertising games, puzzles, snacks, community service projects, and more through which children supposedly “learn … benevolence & empathy, critical thinking, problem solving, creative expression, personal sovereignty,” and “compassion.”
Catholic News Agency reported that TST has announced the initiative’s first expansion into Connecticut next month at Lebanon Elementary School, where volunteers are supposedly “ready to create a fun and inviting place for students to learn and make new friends.” The group is teasing “science projects,” “community service projects,” “puzzles and games,” and “snacks” for the new club.
The announcement claimed that these Satan Clubs do “not attempt to convert children to any religious ideology,” though its reiteration of TST’s view of Satan as a “literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit” reinforces concerns that its activities will come with an undercurrent of antipathy for any religious identity.