The After School Satan Club is part of the Satanic Temple’s outreach program to elementary school children coming soon to your city.
The Satanic Temple operates their “After School Satan Clubs” at certain public elementary schools as a “counterpoint” to Good News Clubs, which are Christian clubs operated by the Child Evangelism Fellowship.
According to the Satan Temple’s Website, their After School Satan Club does not believe in introducing religion into public schools and will only open a club if other religious groups are operating on campus.
Their Website also states that the After School Satan Club exists to provide a safe and inclusive alternative to the religious clubs that use threats of eternal damnation to convert school children to their belief system.
The Satanic Temple claims it does “not worship Satan or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural.” Instead, Satan is a sort of metaphor, in their mythos, since he symbolizes a refusal to blindly follow authority just because, and that Satan stands for rational inquiry, defending the rights of the self in the face of oppression, and a refusal to accept superstition and the supernatural on faith alone.
The Satanic Temple celebrates Satan as the symbolic opposition to organized religion, which they see as an authoritarian, superstitious system.
According to the Statement of Interest detailed within an Amicus Brief for the Satanic Temple, Inc. in support of St. Michael’s Media, Inc. filed on November 3, 2021, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: The Satanic Temple, Inc. is an atheistic religious corporation with membership exceeding 530,000 throughout all 50 States and internationally.
The Satanic Temple organizers stress that they have no connection or lineage with Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan.
