Satan Club starts in Portland elementary school
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
PORTLAND, OR (ANS - September 30, 2016)
-- The Portland chapter of the national Satanic Temple have succeeded
in their efforts to bring an After School Satan Club to a local
elementary School.
The
organization has been approved to begin their program, which focuses
“on science and rational thinking,” on Oct. 19 at the school, Finn Rezz,
the head of the chapter, told The Oregonian.
The After School Satan Club will promote “benevolence and empathy for everybody,” Rezz said.
They
seek to directly oppose “the Good News Clubs” organized by Child
Evangelism Fellowship, ” whose purpose is to evangelize children with
the Gospel and establish them in the Word of God.
The Good News Club is currently in 18 counties in Oregon.
“Across
the nation, parents are concerned about encroachments by proselytizing
evangelicals in their public schools, and are eager to establish the
presence of a contrasting voice that helps children to understand that
one doesn’t need to submit to superstition in order to be a good
person,” the After School Satan Clubs (ASSC) says on its website.
“Our
goal, ultimately, is to place an ASSC in every school where the Good
News Clubs, or other proselytizing religious groups, have established a
presence,” it said.
Rezz
said that the Sacramento Elementary After School Satan Club (in
Portland) “will be held on Wednesdays once a month at the same time as
the Good News Club.”
In
Seattle, the Satanic Temple asked the local school district for
approval to start an after-school program last month in direct response
to the Good News Bible Club run at Centennial Elementary School.
Photo captions: 1) Club logo. 2) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and also founder of www.GodReports.com,
a website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church
around the world. He is also co-host for “Windows on the World” with ANS
Founder, Dan Wooding, which is aired weekly on the Holy Spirit
Broadcasting Network (http://hsbn.tv).
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