Florida schools have to welcome satanic temple after allowing bible thumpers to expose kids to christian delusions

by Stephen D Foster Jr

Oops. Looks like wingnut “christians” are about to throw major temper tantrums and they only have themselves to blame.

Florida schools that allow christian materials to be read by students must open their doors to any religious group to provide materials of their own. That ruling came down from a Florida judge in August and now the satanic temple is coming to exercise real religious liberty.
Because bible thumpers at Orange County school district decided to push christian delusion materials upon their students while banning materials from other religious and non-religious groups, the school faced a lawsuit and agreed to allow the materials. Enter, the satanic temple.
The satanic temple is widely known for fighting to place a statue of baphomet next to the ten commandments on the Oklahoma statehouse grounds. And now they’re bringing satanic materials to kids in Florida, and it’s all thanks to “christian” extremists.
Had christian extremists let the school remain a secular place that honored the separation of cult and state, the satanic temple would not have been able to introduce kids to The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities, which will be widely available in Orange County schools.
The activity book asks kids to find ways to be inclusive in order to solve problems. For instance, one set of instructions in the book says, “These bullies are mad and afraid of things they don’t understand. Help Damian use inclusive language to defuse the situation.” In addition to the activity book other materials will include “pamphlets related to the temple’s tenets, philosophy and practice of satanism, as well as information about the legal right to practice satanism in school.”
According to satanic temple spokesman Lucien Greaves,

All of the children in these Florida schools are already aware of the christian delusion and it’s bible, and this might be the first exposure these children have to the actual practice of satanism. We think many students will be very curious to see what we offer.

Greaves made a point to note, however, that the kids wouldn’t be exposed to satanic temple reading material had the school board not allowed christians to distribute bibles and delusional pamphlets in the first place.

If a public school board is going to allow religious pamphlets and full bibles to be distributed to students — as is the case in Orange County, Florida — we think the responsible thing to do is to ensure that these students are given access to a variety of differing religious opinions, as opposed to standing idly by while one religious voice dominates the discourse and delivers propaganda to youth.

If wingnut “christians” had their way, their delusion would be the only one allowed in schools. This would amount to indoctrination and would violate the freedom of religion since such a policy would effectively ban all other religious and non-religious beliefs. It would also violate the religious liberty of many students since not all students are christians.
Once again, the push to force christianity upon students backfires and now satanists, atheists, buddhists, hindus, jews, and even muslims can provide religious materials to schools for children to read. It should be interesting to see how wingnuts react. Cue the exploding of wingnut heads in 3, 2, 1…