Once again, the TST is making Christian parents choke on their BBQ ... or whatever it is they go for in the Volunteer State. At least in this instance, we have adults who can be bothered to recognize that everything here is according to Hoyle, cards-face-up and by the book ... and of course, they STILL freak out because of the "S" word.
I have a thought for those parents: why not sit in on a session or two and discover JUST WHAT IT IS an After School Satan club does! Oh, but they won't do the same things in front of us, the parents will say. [smh] ♫♪ Paranoia strikes deep. / Into your life it will creep. / It starts when you're always afraid... ♪♫
Wow! Now these Christian’s are getting a taste of their own medicine and it makes them uncomfortable to say the least. Karmas a bitch!
That said, if heaven is filled with these self-righteous religious fanatics, then hell is starting to sound pretty appetizing to me; even though I don’t personally subscribe to any of these fantastical tales better left for five year olds and those so diffident about themselves that they need a crutch for support.
Bottom line: Christian’s engage in conversion therapy; have tried to destroy trans kids rights by saying they are only protecting the children for their own good; yet have no problem unleashing sexual predator preachers and priests onto their own flock.
Christian men and boys who engage incest should be treated with respect since the patriarchy allows men to be men, and sheep to be scared.
Is it lost on anyone that these same religious fanatics almost put a pedophile into the senate in Alabama; Moore lost by only 20k votes out of almost 1.8 million cast. These same zealots continue to support a rapist and kleptocrat for president, regardless of his lies and corruption and incompetence; he puts good, god fearing judges on the bench.
And yet it’s the satanic church that we should be worried about? How rich!...:)
You say "That said, if heaven is filled with these self-righteous religious fanatics, then hell is starting to sound pretty appetizing to me; even though I don’t personally subscribe to any of these fantastical tales".
I say that Hell is a wonderfule place in Norway that has it's own Gods Expedition. Been there, know people borned and raised there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
If their god exists, you are definitely going to heaven. After all, what greater hell can there be for us than to spend eternity with Kenneth Copeland, Greg Locke, and Pat Robertson?
It's so infuriating to me to see how a large percentage by far of Christians (especially in the US and especially in rural areas) are so centered on needing to fight against some imaginary enemy other that they literally can't be bothered to do the minimal amount of research any decent Wikipedia entry could provide. Just because their pastor at their church learned at their barely accredited Bible college that there is a supernatural villain and the name it goes by is Satan and Satan is the president for eternity of Hell or whatever they lack the will to actually ask for themselves if anything labeled as something scary might actually be the opposite of controversial and the opposite of evil. The irony of these same people having a lot more in common with I.S.I.L. and their slaughter and subjugation of the Yazidi people (for being...devil worshippers) than with the American values they claim to be protecting never stops pissing me off.
It's as I said elsewhere: they can't get past the "S" word. It hangs them up and freaks them out and they apparently bluntly refuse to deal with anything that has the "S" word in it.
Now me? I suppose I could get into the whole TST thing. Their Seven Tenets are wonderfully well thought out and an excellent foundational basis for what one might call a secular religion. I will admit, though, calling myself a Satanist would likely be a bridge too far for this old fart. Still, while I probably won't join 'em, I WILL support what they do.
Yes and I mean I assume that's exactly why they call themselves that primarily. It is frustrating that Christians can't seem to wrap their minds around the idea that they keep biting the same bait because tolerance is THAT IMPOSSIBLE for them. When tolerance of the shunned other was in my understanding kind of central to Jesus's whole message, right?
That's indoctrination for you. Start early, drill it in, make sure it sticks, and some people find themselves mired in that mistaken shit for their entire lives.
Signs in Arabic in Mexico directing Muslim terrorists toward the US. (Why they can’t just follow the caravans is never explained. Or why these terrorists don’t know how to determine north, for that matter.)
Related to the UN black helicopters are the decals on the backs of road signs. They say things like “Property of Johnson County” and list the penalties for destruction or damage to public property. But we know that’s just code for directions to the houses of gun owners.
I know a guy who asserted just the other day that the Fed is going to lower interest rates next year because it’s an election year. “Why would the Fed do that?” To help Biden. “So when the Fed lowered rates in 2020 it was to help Trump?” They didn’t lower rates in 2020. I google up a graph showing that I am right and he is wrong. Him: They’re all corrupt. “Even the ones that Trump appointed?” He didn’t appoint the majority.
These conservative Christians know beyond doubt the After-School Satan Club would harm children, and yet they would be hard-pressed to demonstrate how their religion ever made the world a better place. They are terrified of the effects critical thinking might have on their children. It speaks directly to how little confidence they have in their own message.
A sharper mind than yours would be able recognize that, if your opponent is able to use the Constitution against you in this way, that means you are 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 standing on the opposite side of the law from the Constitution. A cleverer person, even 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 quicker on the uptake, would be able to deduce the obvious solution to the predicament you find yourself in.
But we won't be holding our breath for 𝘺𝘰𝘶 to connect the dots and navigate your way out of it.
Some nitwhit posted a comment on the yahoo story about this ranting and raving about how 'Satin' is taking over the USA and we must all fight against 'Satin'. He spelled it that way about 5 times in his rant...
I replied that I would pray to the great lord that he would release a teacher from the pit to give him a spelling lesson...
As someone supposedly interested in the welfare of youth, what he SHOULD have been concerned about was the promotion of cigarets. That billboard would've been a good opportunity to make such an observation, but no.
““We cannot allow any entity called Satanic Temple to have private time with our children,” Adkins said. “I can’t go into the school building and pray. But yet we can rent a facility to the Satanic Temple and they can give a party for children. It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd.””
I bet he has no issue allowing Catholic priests, youth pastors, and other clergy private time with the students. And I’m not talking about the blatantly unconstitutional indoctrination they would be doing. That’s the least of my worries when clergy try to spend time alone with children.
The ASS club will not likely be alone with children, anymore than the GNC or any other club. TST are not the ones with the reputation of grooming and molesting, but they’re the ones you’re concerned about. You’re scared the kids will learn to think critically and see through the lies your religion is based on. Too damn bad.
Why does religious kook think the club has “private time” with their kids? The club isn’t be held in a secret undisclosed location is it? I found that phrase creepy.
The montage of all those raging, very white MAGAts (one of whom is giving the finger). The one that's captioned "There's no hate quite like Christian hate."
Makes me laugh when cristers whine about a being that, according to their so-called sacred text, was created by their own god.
I like to inform believers of that fact and then ask them: "Is your god truly all-powerful? Then why can't he rid the world of Satan, who appears more powerful than him? Is your god all-knowing? Then why did he ever create Satan to begin with?"
I get a lot of Tucker Carlson blank stares when I ask them those things.
Mick West, who started in working pretty much exclusively on chemtrail conspiracists, recently became a regular contributor to "Skeptical Inquirer" magazine, where he's branched out to apply his persuasive techniques to a variety of other myths and superstitions. He says that depth of belief in virtually any pseudoscience you care to name runs on a spectrum from "hmm, might have some element of truth to it" all the way to "clearly Satan and or Hillary Clinton are behind this, and the lying media are covering for it because they too are all in on the plot to steal our brains and eat our babies, and nothing you say will ever convince me otherwise". He point out that the best you'll ever do with anyone anywhere on this spectrum is to get them to back down a notch or two, but that the best way to do it is exactly what you describe above. Don't argue with them, be genuinely interested and ask them things like "That's interesting. What leads you to think so? Where did you learn about this?" That gets them to thinking about their own thinking, which is a start.
Your whole religion is a con, pastor. You've been tricking your flock and are exhorting them to buy into the con every Sunday. And hey, if you make money off the deal? All the better, am I right?
Christians continue to demonstrate how lacking their religion is in teaching empathy. Learning about people who are not Christian and trying to understand is not in their list of abilities. At the very least they should be able to understand that when people who troll you get a reaction, that encourages them to troll some more. That is something the internet can teach you very quickly. Instead, their churches teach them that staying off the internet is better for them. Even worse, they are encouraged to stay in their little religious bubble and never hear opposing perspectives. It's no wonder they hear the word "Satan" and lose their minds. They won't even try to educate themselves to learn more about the people who are at best trolling them and at the worst trying to educate kids. (Yes, I got those right because it's become clear that the religious right is vehemently opposed to actual education.) Any leadership that DIScourages learning empathy is doing a disservice to it's people.
Once again, the TST is making Christian parents choke on their BBQ ... or whatever it is they go for in the Volunteer State. At least in this instance, we have adults who can be bothered to recognize that everything here is according to Hoyle, cards-face-up and by the book ... and of course, they STILL freak out because of the "S" word.
I have a thought for those parents: why not sit in on a session or two and discover JUST WHAT IT IS an After School Satan club does! Oh, but they won't do the same things in front of us, the parents will say. [smh] ♫♪ Paranoia strikes deep. / Into your life it will creep. / It starts when you're always afraid... ♪♫
If they did that they would learn tolerance, empathy, and kindness towards others.
And the Church cannot tolerate that!
"Oh, but they won't do the same things in front of us, the parents will say."
Neither do the pedophile youth pastors.
Wow! Now these Christian’s are getting a taste of their own medicine and it makes them uncomfortable to say the least. Karmas a bitch!
That said, if heaven is filled with these self-righteous religious fanatics, then hell is starting to sound pretty appetizing to me; even though I don’t personally subscribe to any of these fantastical tales better left for five year olds and those so diffident about themselves that they need a crutch for support.
Bottom line: Christian’s engage in conversion therapy; have tried to destroy trans kids rights by saying they are only protecting the children for their own good; yet have no problem unleashing sexual predator preachers and priests onto their own flock.
Christian men and boys who engage incest should be treated with respect since the patriarchy allows men to be men, and sheep to be scared.
Is it lost on anyone that these same religious fanatics almost put a pedophile into the senate in Alabama; Moore lost by only 20k votes out of almost 1.8 million cast. These same zealots continue to support a rapist and kleptocrat for president, regardless of his lies and corruption and incompetence; he puts good, god fearing judges on the bench.
And yet it’s the satanic church that we should be worried about? How rich!...:)
You say "That said, if heaven is filled with these self-righteous religious fanatics, then hell is starting to sound pretty appetizing to me; even though I don’t personally subscribe to any of these fantastical tales".
I say that Hell is a wonderfule place in Norway that has it's own Gods Expedition. Been there, know people borned and raised there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
Nice...:)
If their god exists, you are definitely going to heaven. After all, what greater hell can there be for us than to spend eternity with Kenneth Copeland, Greg Locke, and Pat Robertson?
You asked for it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY&pp=ygUfaW4gaGVsbCBpJ2xsIGJlIGluIGdvb2QgY29tcGFueQ%3D%3D
It's so infuriating to me to see how a large percentage by far of Christians (especially in the US and especially in rural areas) are so centered on needing to fight against some imaginary enemy other that they literally can't be bothered to do the minimal amount of research any decent Wikipedia entry could provide. Just because their pastor at their church learned at their barely accredited Bible college that there is a supernatural villain and the name it goes by is Satan and Satan is the president for eternity of Hell or whatever they lack the will to actually ask for themselves if anything labeled as something scary might actually be the opposite of controversial and the opposite of evil. The irony of these same people having a lot more in common with I.S.I.L. and their slaughter and subjugation of the Yazidi people (for being...devil worshippers) than with the American values they claim to be protecting never stops pissing me off.
It's as I said elsewhere: they can't get past the "S" word. It hangs them up and freaks them out and they apparently bluntly refuse to deal with anything that has the "S" word in it.
Now me? I suppose I could get into the whole TST thing. Their Seven Tenets are wonderfully well thought out and an excellent foundational basis for what one might call a secular religion. I will admit, though, calling myself a Satanist would likely be a bridge too far for this old fart. Still, while I probably won't join 'em, I WILL support what they do.
Yes and I mean I assume that's exactly why they call themselves that primarily. It is frustrating that Christians can't seem to wrap their minds around the idea that they keep biting the same bait because tolerance is THAT IMPOSSIBLE for them. When tolerance of the shunned other was in my understanding kind of central to Jesus's whole message, right?
That's indoctrination for you. Start early, drill it in, make sure it sticks, and some people find themselves mired in that mistaken shit for their entire lives.
And there's the real tragedy.
The Seven Tenets are wonderful. I printed them out and put them on my classroom wall.
You ! You science teacher ! How dare you not brainwash children !?
It's hard to brainwash with actual facts!
Saint kellyanne Conwoman told us to believe alternative facts.
VERY far out! Does anyone ask where the list came from, or does it have a proper heading at the top?
Not to mention...they invented Satan.
Try to get them to accept that.
I know it's just...so exhausting how predictably horrible and ignorant they are, you know?
You forgot about the Chinese bamboo shoots in AZ.
I was going to congratulate Spence in Austin for such a thorough list. It is getting harder and harder to get them all.
Chemtrails? Millions of Muslim fighters hidden in National Parks?
Signs in Arabic in Mexico directing Muslim terrorists toward the US. (Why they can’t just follow the caravans is never explained. Or why these terrorists don’t know how to determine north, for that matter.)
Related to the UN black helicopters are the decals on the backs of road signs. They say things like “Property of Johnson County” and list the penalties for destruction or damage to public property. But we know that’s just code for directions to the houses of gun owners.
I know a guy who asserted just the other day that the Fed is going to lower interest rates next year because it’s an election year. “Why would the Fed do that?” To help Biden. “So when the Fed lowered rates in 2020 it was to help Trump?” They didn’t lower rates in 2020. I google up a graph showing that I am right and he is wrong. Him: They’re all corrupt. “Even the ones that Trump appointed?” He didn’t appoint the majority.
And on and on and on. Facts simply don’t matter.
*Prepare some snacks and tea and wait*
Go ahead I have all night.
These conservative Christians know beyond doubt the After-School Satan Club would harm children, and yet they would be hard-pressed to demonstrate how their religion ever made the world a better place. They are terrified of the effects critical thinking might have on their children. It speaks directly to how little confidence they have in their own message.
"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘢𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵, 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘴."
A sharper mind than yours would be able recognize that, if your opponent is able to use the Constitution against you in this way, that means you are 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 standing on the opposite side of the law from the Constitution. A cleverer person, even 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 quicker on the uptake, would be able to deduce the obvious solution to the predicament you find yourself in.
But we won't be holding our breath for 𝘺𝘰𝘶 to connect the dots and navigate your way out of it.
Some nitwhit posted a comment on the yahoo story about this ranting and raving about how 'Satin' is taking over the USA and we must all fight against 'Satin'. He spelled it that way about 5 times in his rant...
I replied that I would pray to the great lord that he would release a teacher from the pit to give him a spelling lesson...
Ooooooh! Satin! :)
So soft and silky!
Hail Satin!
https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Satin
As someone supposedly interested in the welfare of youth, what he SHOULD have been concerned about was the promotion of cigarets. That billboard would've been a good opportunity to make such an observation, but no.
““We cannot allow any entity called Satanic Temple to have private time with our children,” Adkins said. “I can’t go into the school building and pray. But yet we can rent a facility to the Satanic Temple and they can give a party for children. It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd.””
I bet he has no issue allowing Catholic priests, youth pastors, and other clergy private time with the students. And I’m not talking about the blatantly unconstitutional indoctrination they would be doing. That’s the least of my worries when clergy try to spend time alone with children.
The ASS club will not likely be alone with children, anymore than the GNC or any other club. TST are not the ones with the reputation of grooming and molesting, but they’re the ones you’re concerned about. You’re scared the kids will learn to think critically and see through the lies your religion is based on. Too damn bad.
“𝑊𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛,” 𝐴𝑑𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.
Only priests and pastors are allowed to have "private time" with their children!
Why does religious kook think the club has “private time” with their kids? The club isn’t be held in a secret undisclosed location is it? I found that phrase creepy.
Projection.
100%
“I can’t go into the school building and pray." - Yes you can. I'm sure Good News Clubs do.
"But yet we can rent a facility to the Satanic Temple and they can give a party for children." - The horror! Party on.
He just can't proselytize to students. That's what truly gripes him.
He can at a GNC meeting.
No proselytizing there. He'd be literally preaching to the choir.
"Party on, Wayne!" "Party on, Garth!"
Is he on a sex offenders list ?
The Satanists are doing the Lord’s work, so to speak.
And the Christian’s; satan’s...:)
I'll bet if someone started an 'after school SHOOTING club' these folks would be all for it...
No they won't. What's the point of shooting after school? The whole point of school shootings is to do it DURING school, not after!
"How dare this awful group use the law of the land correctly to stop us from preventing other people's kids from doing a thing we dislike!"
I look at that meme and I hear racists saying "Why do black people seem so angry all the time?"
So much projection and lack of self-awareness.
What was the meme?
The montage of all those raging, very white MAGAts (one of whom is giving the finger). The one that's captioned "There's no hate quite like Christian hate."
Or was it "There's no hate quite like Christian love."
(Damn. I've seen it countless times. You'd think I'd remember the wording)
It was.
There is precedence for changing an organization's name. A long time ago the Every Day Pedo Club changed its name to The Catholic Church.
Makes me laugh when cristers whine about a being that, according to their so-called sacred text, was created by their own god.
I like to inform believers of that fact and then ask them: "Is your god truly all-powerful? Then why can't he rid the world of Satan, who appears more powerful than him? Is your god all-knowing? Then why did he ever create Satan to begin with?"
I get a lot of Tucker Carlson blank stares when I ask them those things.
Mick West, who started in working pretty much exclusively on chemtrail conspiracists, recently became a regular contributor to "Skeptical Inquirer" magazine, where he's branched out to apply his persuasive techniques to a variety of other myths and superstitions. He says that depth of belief in virtually any pseudoscience you care to name runs on a spectrum from "hmm, might have some element of truth to it" all the way to "clearly Satan and or Hillary Clinton are behind this, and the lying media are covering for it because they too are all in on the plot to steal our brains and eat our babies, and nothing you say will ever convince me otherwise". He point out that the best you'll ever do with anyone anywhere on this spectrum is to get them to back down a notch or two, but that the best way to do it is exactly what you describe above. Don't argue with them, be genuinely interested and ask them things like "That's interesting. What leads you to think so? Where did you learn about this?" That gets them to thinking about their own thinking, which is a start.
ADKINS: "They tricked us!"
Your whole religion is a con, pastor. You've been tricking your flock and are exhorting them to buy into the con every Sunday. And hey, if you make money off the deal? All the better, am I right?
Christians continue to demonstrate how lacking their religion is in teaching empathy. Learning about people who are not Christian and trying to understand is not in their list of abilities. At the very least they should be able to understand that when people who troll you get a reaction, that encourages them to troll some more. That is something the internet can teach you very quickly. Instead, their churches teach them that staying off the internet is better for them. Even worse, they are encouraged to stay in their little religious bubble and never hear opposing perspectives. It's no wonder they hear the word "Satan" and lose their minds. They won't even try to educate themselves to learn more about the people who are at best trolling them and at the worst trying to educate kids. (Yes, I got those right because it's become clear that the religious right is vehemently opposed to actual education.) Any leadership that DIScourages learning empathy is doing a disservice to it's people.