{"id":1746984,"date":"2022-11-21T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746984"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:03:12","slug":"california-school-offers-after-school-satan-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-offers-after-school-satan-club\/","title":{"rendered":"California School Offers &#8220;After School Satan Club&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-school-offers-after-school-satan-club%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_Untitled_design_-_2022-11-20T230229.314.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Golden Hills Elementary School in Tehachapi, California will be hosting an \u201cAfter School Satan Club,\u201d sponsored by the Satanic Temple and Reason Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lucien Greaves, the co-founder and spokesperson of the After School Satan Club, the program was created to educate children and encourage critical thinking, and not teach Satanism.\u00a0The Satanic Temple was founded in 2012 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/thethinkingatheist\/2017\/03\/28\/satanic-a-conversation-with-lucien-greaves\">Greaves<\/a>\u00a0and Malcolm Jarry and has gained notoriety for its public stunts.<\/p>\n<p>Greaves told <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/new-after-school-satan-club-coming-to-tehachapi-elementary-school\">KBAK<\/a>, \u201cWe keep religious matters out of the teachings of the after-school Satan clubs and people often ask us, well then why include Satanism at all, being that people are going to be offended by it? Well, the fact of the matter is, there\u2019s nothing to be offended by and we don\u2019t want people to be unaware of who we are when we run these programs, as we think there would be a more intense backlash if we were trying to hide it,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Knight, grandparent to a 5th grader at the school told the outlet, \u201cI think it\u2019s disgusting, I understand the school has to allow them because they allow other after-school programs such as the good news, which is a Christian-based after-school program, that one I\u2019m okay with, but I can\u2019t imagine why anyone would want their child to attend this Satanic group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Tehachapi Unified School District said that according to the law they cannot discriminate against groups wanting to use their facilities based on a viewpoint and that the Satan Club is not a District approved club.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Hicks, a critical thinking professor who will be leading the Satan Club said Christian-based clubs like the Good News Club is one of the reasons why he believes schools need the Satan Club. He told KBAK, \u201cThere\u2019s currently a Good News Club there which is teaching kids to go save souls for Jesus, at the school. We want to give an alternative point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI\u2019m not teaching these kids to be Satanic, I\u2019m not teaching these kids that they need to hail Satan or identify as Satanists, what we\u2019re doing is we\u2019re thinking critical thinking, we\u2019re teaching science, we\u2019re teaching empathy and benevolence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From my understanding, the Good News Clubs sent out some flyers, which they are certainly entitled to do, and some parents got together and said we\u2019re not interested in this. And they knew of the After School Satan Club, and they requested our presence,&#8221; Hicks continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/parents-outraged-over-illinois-elementary-schools-decision-to-host-satan-club\">Similar clubs<\/a> have been popping up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10735641\/Pennsylvania-elementary-school-considers-opening-school-SATANIC-club-kids-young-five.html\">other schools<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The monthly meetings will begin in December in the cafeteria, according to a flyer from The Satanic Temple, but parents are required to give permission before their children can attend.<\/p>\n<p>According to their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesatanictemple.com\/pages\/about-us\">website<\/a>, &#8220;The Mission Of The Satanic Temple Is To Encourage Benevolence And Empathy, Reject Tyrannical Authority, Advocate Practical Common Sense, Oppose Injustice, And Undertake Noble Pursuits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Hills Elementary School in Tehachapi, California will be hosting an \u201cAfter School Satan Club,\u201d sponsored by the Satanic Temple and Reason Alliance.According to Lucien Greaves, the co-founder and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}