Given that the threat would have been called in by one of the good news club themselves, I highly doubt they'd catch the perp.
They'd certainly frame someone though. The cops would help, but even then five minutes of actual investigation would prove the charge was fake, but the media would run with it and Republicans would use all of it as an excuse to push this country further into the fucking toilet.
“ Notice, too, that no representative of the Good News Club (or any Christian group in the district) has so far spoken out in defense of the Satanists. They haven’t said the decision is appalling and that they will be proud to lend their time and space to the other group in the name of religious freedom.”
Of course they didn’t, Christians typically don’t think religious freedom applies to anything they find ‘satanic’. Hopefully this keeps being words and not real bombs.
Jesus has a meeting planned with his attorneys. They will meet right after Jesus has decided which teams make it to the Sweet Sixteen and what Putins next move will be against Ukraine. Jesus is really busy these days running the world; almost as busy as Elon Musk.
My newspaper became one of the ones taking the head of Scott Adams of the Klan Adams ("Dilbert" cartoon) for vile racist comments he made. Effective tomorrow, "Dilbert" is off the air here.
Do you really think a lot of the elected DAs and judges in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are not Christians? That's a First Amendment right, and that is prolly on the "Make A Lawyer" overall syllabus?
Shutting down a club to protect schoolchildren is now seen as a 'bad thing' in a country with multiple mass school shootings?!
Aside from the obvious safety issues, the Superintendent could be saving her political capital for use in other areas of school administration, like funding the facilities and teachers, instead of fighting a PR battle that is irrelevant if the club is just reconstituted as a normal Science Club or the like?
You know, eschewing the 'FU, local religious establishment' for the sake of ACTUALLY HELPING THE CHILDREN?!
So when they call in a bomb threat and mention the Gay-Straight Alliance. It's GSLEN's fault for risking all those children's lives by not calling it the Geography Club?
Would you consider it the local mosque's fault if a bomb threat was called in over a musilim after school club?
“…instead of fighting a PR battle that is irrelevant if the club is just reconstituted as a normal Science Club or the like?”
But the PR battle is not irrelevant, and fighting this fight is important because it is not about bringing a science club to the students, while it is a part of the perks, it is about protecting the constitutional rights of all the students. The threat is not the club, the threat is the response to the club, and that is what we need to fight against. They are the ones choosing to use the children as pawns in a violent way, not the ASS. And pointing out that we know they’re going to get violent puts the onus on us is flat wrong. The villain is the one who brings a gun to a debate. Them. Not ASS. The Christians calling in bomb threats. Those are the villains and they are proving why the fight needs to be fought. They will stoop to anything to keep our children from learning and having their constitutionally protected religious freedom.
Calling it a science club will not protect children or their rights. It will only give them more power.
But It's not a Science Club. It's a religious club. It's purpose is to spread the tenets, ideas and philosophies of TST. Just like the Good News Club does for Christianity. The fact that the TST promotes science and critical thinking instead of magic and fantasy as reality doesn't change that.
And it is relevant to students' understanding one of the founding principles of this country, one that is under constant attack. It is also a counter to the brainwashing of the GNC.
Every time the TST comes up you whine about the confrontational nature of their name and symbols. But confrontation is the only thing that shakes the majority out of their complacency. By their actions, it's easy to see that Rev. King, Mr. Kramer, Ms. Anthony and Ms. Stanton, to name a few, knew that.
Hell, in our own lifetimes, we've seen that hardly anyone was paying attention to the fact that a disproportionate number of unarmed black men were killed by police until people began to riot. Now it's being talked about and people with power are actually looking for solutions.
How very Christian of them. Make up slander against someone, to villainies them, fear monger to encourage violence when they show up, act shocked when violence is threatened or happens, blame the victim of the violence and find ways to exclude the victims. It’s the same playbook for ASS clubs as the LGBT community, Drag Queen story hour, people of color and any other marginalized community.
All right, all right, let's settle down here. The meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Homo Stupidicus will now come to order...
Man ... some people just can't find their backbone at all, can they? Never mind being able to look past the veneer and realize what an organization which is superficially unusual really has to offer. Yeah, there's a part of me that still thinks that TST is pissing into the wind with the whole Satan thing, but I DO see past the surface, because I can be bothered to. What astonishes me is how few apparently have the same capacity in the Keystone State, or perhaps maybe even go to the mat for After School Satan.
Seems to me to be a case of SSDD – Same STUPIDITY, Different Day – and I'm not especially hopeful for the future on this topic.
Am I the only one who thinks the superintendent sounds like she really, really wanted an excuse to ban the club? And that maybe, just maybe whoever called in the threat was in cahoots with her?* Hey, nothing affirms your belief that your god is "almighty" more than admitting someone has to do his work for him.
But that's modern America for you. Reason, compassion and human decency require extra security, but superstition and bigotry are free to run rampant over people's lives--including the lives (and minds) of kids. How could anyone possibly doubt this is The Greatest Country in the World™?
There is much to improve in U.S. culture. The embedded racism and xenophobia, the self-centeredness and the arrogance that leads us to either ignore other socio-political situations or try to impose our own.
Look, Jesus preaches love and forgiveness, but when it comes down to protecting Christianity, Inc. a bomb threat is perfectly acceptable. It says that in the Bible, right?
My first job out of college was as a claims authorizer at Social Security. The first thing we learned on the first day of our training was the body of law governing our position and the agency as a whole. Then in the 90s I served a term on the at-large governing committee of the National Writers Union, and again the first thing new members were exposed to on our first day of orientation was the law governing union activities. Why the hell isn't there a similar requirement for school superintendents? Oh, that's right..."local control of education," i.e. schools can do any damn thing they want, overrides everything else in this benighted country.
"What district policy did the Satanists violate?"
5.b.(iii): Thou shalt not offend ignorant snowflakes.
Sub clause of 5.b.: Being openly not white conservative Christian is offensive by default.
Why do I get the feeling that if a bomb threat was called in against the "Good News" Club, the perp would be caught in about 15 minutes.
Given that the threat would have been called in by one of the good news club themselves, I highly doubt they'd catch the perp.
They'd certainly frame someone though. The cops would help, but even then five minutes of actual investigation would prove the charge was fake, but the media would run with it and Republicans would use all of it as an excuse to push this country further into the fucking toilet.
And it would turn out to be someone who just happens to go to the same church as the superintendent.
“ Notice, too, that no representative of the Good News Club (or any Christian group in the district) has so far spoken out in defense of the Satanists. They haven’t said the decision is appalling and that they will be proud to lend their time and space to the other group in the name of religious freedom.”
Of course they didn’t, Christians typically don’t think religious freedom applies to anything they find ‘satanic’. Hopefully this keeps being words and not real bombs.
Jesus has a meeting planned with his attorneys. They will meet right after Jesus has decided which teams make it to the Sweet Sixteen and what Putins next move will be against Ukraine. Jesus is really busy these days running the world; almost as busy as Elon Musk.
I thought an octopus determined the Sweet Sixteen.... No wait! That was the World Cup. Or the Super Bowl. ;)
Very closed society around there, and a lot of people who don't smile so much.
They also take action and only smile AFTER they've won the war, too.
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My newspaper became one of the ones taking the head of Scott Adams of the Klan Adams ("Dilbert" cartoon) for vile racist comments he made. Effective tomorrow, "Dilbert" is off the air here.
Good on ya, ST.
OTOneH, have had my fill of Dilbert, and that a couple decades ago.
OTOtherH, he can continue on the web, and maybe find redemption, if he really wants it?
BTW, he's already basically changed 'careers' once. Who knows what may come?
FOX talking head. "I have been silenced!"
"Superintendent Jaime] Vlasaty"
Blaming the victims, she is probably a good law abiding christian. Luckily for Pennsylvania she is not a DA or a judge 🙄
Do you really think a lot of the elected DAs and judges in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are not Christians? That's a First Amendment right, and that is prolly on the "Make A Lawyer" overall syllabus?
Shutting down a club to protect schoolchildren is now seen as a 'bad thing' in a country with multiple mass school shootings?!
Aside from the obvious safety issues, the Superintendent could be saving her political capital for use in other areas of school administration, like funding the facilities and teachers, instead of fighting a PR battle that is irrelevant if the club is just reconstituted as a normal Science Club or the like?
You know, eschewing the 'FU, local religious establishment' for the sake of ACTUALLY HELPING THE CHILDREN?!
So when they call in a bomb threat and mention the Gay-Straight Alliance. It's GSLEN's fault for risking all those children's lives by not calling it the Geography Club?
Would you consider it the local mosque's fault if a bomb threat was called in over a musilim after school club?
Call me when it happens.
There is LITTLE context in this case, but there is NONE in your hypothetical.
And, that still does not change the fact that I doubt whether the elected DAs and judges in the commonwealth are all not Christians.
So what if they are Christians, the law is still the law. And terrorists are still terrorists.
What context do you think is needed? The lack of context in this case hasn't stopped you from spouting off, blaming TST for the terrorist's actions.
You don't want to answer my hypotheticals because you know it makes you a hypocrite.
“…instead of fighting a PR battle that is irrelevant if the club is just reconstituted as a normal Science Club or the like?”
But the PR battle is not irrelevant, and fighting this fight is important because it is not about bringing a science club to the students, while it is a part of the perks, it is about protecting the constitutional rights of all the students. The threat is not the club, the threat is the response to the club, and that is what we need to fight against. They are the ones choosing to use the children as pawns in a violent way, not the ASS. And pointing out that we know they’re going to get violent puts the onus on us is flat wrong. The villain is the one who brings a gun to a debate. Them. Not ASS. The Christians calling in bomb threats. Those are the villains and they are proving why the fight needs to be fought. They will stoop to anything to keep our children from learning and having their constitutionally protected religious freedom.
Calling it a science club will not protect children or their rights. It will only give them more power.
Yeah, it's REALLY relevant to the kids who don't have a Science Club now, isn't it?
But It's not a Science Club. It's a religious club. It's purpose is to spread the tenets, ideas and philosophies of TST. Just like the Good News Club does for Christianity. The fact that the TST promotes science and critical thinking instead of magic and fantasy as reality doesn't change that.
And it is relevant to students' understanding one of the founding principles of this country, one that is under constant attack. It is also a counter to the brainwashing of the GNC.
Every time the TST comes up you whine about the confrontational nature of their name and symbols. But confrontation is the only thing that shakes the majority out of their complacency. By their actions, it's easy to see that Rev. King, Mr. Kramer, Ms. Anthony and Ms. Stanton, to name a few, knew that.
Hell, in our own lifetimes, we've seen that hardly anyone was paying attention to the fact that a disproportionate number of unarmed black men were killed by police until people began to riot. Now it's being talked about and people with power are actually looking for solutions.
I read their policies. Section 5.E (Insurance requirement). My guess is they didn't have any proof of insurance). https://www.svpanthers.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=666&ModuleInstanceID=4202&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=5906&PageID=1203&Comments=true
Insurance – Each organization using District facilities will be required to furnish a certificate of
insurance with minimum coverage providing not less than $1,000,000 limit per occurrence for
bodily injury and/or property damage liability.
I'd like to see the GNC's certificate.
They don't need it, they have god. Look how many bibles he saved when churches were destroyed.
Went to a junior high school who had a "Black Panther" as the school mascot.
Interesting to see the same is still hanging in there in Saucon Valley!
How very Christian of them. Make up slander against someone, to villainies them, fear monger to encourage violence when they show up, act shocked when violence is threatened or happens, blame the victim of the violence and find ways to exclude the victims. It’s the same playbook for ASS clubs as the LGBT community, Drag Queen story hour, people of color and any other marginalized community.
More proof that anti-Satanist are dangerous violent people.
All right, all right, let's settle down here. The meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Homo Stupidicus will now come to order...
Man ... some people just can't find their backbone at all, can they? Never mind being able to look past the veneer and realize what an organization which is superficially unusual really has to offer. Yeah, there's a part of me that still thinks that TST is pissing into the wind with the whole Satan thing, but I DO see past the surface, because I can be bothered to. What astonishes me is how few apparently have the same capacity in the Keystone State, or perhaps maybe even go to the mat for After School Satan.
Seems to me to be a case of SSDD – Same STUPIDITY, Different Day – and I'm not especially hopeful for the future on this topic.
Am I the only one who thinks the superintendent sounds like she really, really wanted an excuse to ban the club? And that maybe, just maybe whoever called in the threat was in cahoots with her?* Hey, nothing affirms your belief that your god is "almighty" more than admitting someone has to do his work for him.
But that's modern America for you. Reason, compassion and human decency require extra security, but superstition and bigotry are free to run rampant over people's lives--including the lives (and minds) of kids. How could anyone possibly doubt this is The Greatest Country in the World™?
*Call me skeptic.
The call is coming from inside the school.
I thought the same, it sounded too conspirationist but again I don't live in Fundamentalistan.
There is much to improve in U.S. culture. The embedded racism and xenophobia, the self-centeredness and the arrogance that leads us to either ignore other socio-political situations or try to impose our own.
News Flash: "Omnipotent, Omniscient God Jesus Resorts to Bomb Threats to Protect His Reputation Against After School Club." Film at 11.
That's all right. He was using the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, not one of those earthly, satanic bombs.
He sent 2 she-bears to maul 42 kids for acting like children and calling a man "baldy."
YHVH doesn't sound very pro-life.
Look, Jesus preaches love and forgiveness, but when it comes down to protecting Christianity, Inc. a bomb threat is perfectly acceptable. It says that in the Bible, right?
Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9-21.
Book of Trump, Verse 1: "They let you grab 'em by the pussy."
Book of BHm, Verse 1 "Being punched* in the dick is as painful as being kicked."
* The target is easier to reach with a fist when you're 4'9 high 😁
I know. It's easy to punch from the shoulder.
In the Book of Armaments. Should only be used against killer rabbits, but they do tend to cherry pick.
Beat me to it as I was typing it.
The holy handgrenade comes to mind. Blow them to tiny pieces, in thy mercy.
My first job out of college was as a claims authorizer at Social Security. The first thing we learned on the first day of our training was the body of law governing our position and the agency as a whole. Then in the 90s I served a term on the at-large governing committee of the National Writers Union, and again the first thing new members were exposed to on our first day of orientation was the law governing union activities. Why the hell isn't there a similar requirement for school superintendents? Oh, that's right..."local control of education," i.e. schools can do any damn thing they want, overrides everything else in this benighted country.
That does it. I'm going to post their Seven Fundamental Tenets in my classroom. I should've done it long ago.
If a teacher tries that in DeNazi's Floriduh they would get sued and lose their teaching certificate.
Threats of violence from the Religion of Love to enforce their will on others.
Been that way for nearly the whole of Christianity's history. They are religious terrorists and should be treated as such.
Yep, and the winning strategy is to keep trying to catch those flies with vinegar, I say!
The 'Satanic' is just as much about the 'adults' being motivated as the kids?
https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/christians-who-went-to-the-asbury
New thingy