Back in September, the Satanic Temple announced its intention to hand out pamphlets on its tenets to Florida schoolchildren in response to an Orange County School Board decision that allowed a Christian group to hand out Bibles and pamphlets of its own.

But the outcry over the idea of a group that calls itself the "Satanic Temple" handing out materials to kids is forcing the School Board to revisit its policy of allowing any kind of religious material to be handed out.

The School Board met Thursday to discuss its policy.

The Satanic Temple materials, which include a coloring and activity booklet for children titled "The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities," were to be handed out after an atheist group won a court decision to allow it to hand out materials, just as the Christian group was allowed to.

But the School Board has been under heavy scrutiny ever since and could eliminate the practice altogether. This was the Satanic Temple's aim all along.

"We don't argue the merits of any one voice in a school environment," Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Grieves told New Times. "We think it's in the best interests for everyone, especially the kids, that the district not have religious materials of any kind distributed in schools."

But, Grieves says, the fact that the School Board is rethinking its policy shows its intention the whole time. "It strongly implies they never intended to have a plurality of voices," he says.

The entire episode stems from the School Board's allowing the Christian group World Changers of Florida to hand out Bibles on three occasions.

An atheist group then submitted a request to hand out its own materials but was shot down because of a fear of "causing a distraction." The atheist group then sued the School Board, but a judge threw out the lawsuit after the School Board relented and allowed the group to hand out its material.

That's when the Satanic Temple stepped in with its own set of materials, including a coloring and activity book. One of the sections of the booklet features a drawing of children and bullies in a word-jumble.

"These bullies are mad and afraid of things they don't understand," the booklet reads. "Help Damian use inclusive language to defuse the situation."

The possible policy change by the School Board is being met with resistance from World Changers, who call it "an attack on Christians."

"They seem to be moving against the interests of a large part of the community," World Changers Vice President Greg Harper told the Orlando Sentinel. "The Bible will open somebody's heart, somebody's mind, and cause them to pursue answers."

Harper added that World Changers is looking to distribute Bibles a fourth time on January 16 in at least 18 district high schools.

A district spokesperson said that so far they've received a request to hand out religious materials only from the Satanic Temple.

Meanwhile, the board won't be voting on the matter until at least February.

"There has to be an understanding that they probably have a student body that is generally aware of Christian teachings," Grieves said to New Times about the overall policy.

"Kids know about the Bible. They probably go to church on Sundays with their parents. But our material juxtaposed to that offers differing religious opinions, not just the view that's dominating the discourse."

sonOfLucifer:
Ave Satanas. Teach the kids all the Gods and let them pick their favorite or teach them none. I'm so happy for this news. My father is not a jealous God.

doubleDx:
Atheists advocating for satanism since the beginning of time And they will tell you they don't believe in the existence of any God....is Satan not their god? Smh! All atheists are Satanists period! Atheism doesn't exist, it's theism all through! It either Satan (The GOD of Atheists, skeptics, Pagans etc) or Yahweh (The GOD of truth and righteousness)! Don't be deceived, humans are hardwired to worship something...there is no doubt, we are all theists!

Ishilove:
How irritating. They will never allow Christians be.

doubleDx:
Atheists advocating for satanism since the beginning of time And they will tell you they don't believe in the existence of any God....is Satan not their god? Smh! All atheists are Satanists period! Atheism doesn't exist, it's theism all through! It either Satan (The GOD of Atheists, skeptics, Pagans etc) or Yahweh (The GOD of truth and righteousness)! Don't be deceived, humans are hardwired to worship something...there is no doubt, we are all theists!

Ishilove:
How irritating. They will never allow Christians be.

doubleDx:
Atheists advocating for satanism since the beginning of time And they will tell you they don't believe in the existence of any God....is Satan not their god? Smh! All atheists are Satanists period! Atheism doesn't exist, it's theism all through! It either Satan (The GOD of Atheists, skeptics, Pagans etc) or Yahweh (The GOD of truth and righteousness)! Don't be deceived, humans are hardwired to worship something...there is no doubt, we are all theists!

ayoku777:


Well said brother. That's why I don't really waste time engaging athiests because that world-view won't survive much longer.

The glory of God would soon be revealed and everyone would know there is a living Christ; and it will now be a simple question of whether you will worship Him as Lord and King or not.

At the end of this age, we will only have sons of perdition and true disciples. Christ will be the central theme and everything else will be relative to Him. Everyone will either be for Christ or be an Anti-Christ -not athiests.

Believing there is no God is not the Devil's end game, he himself wants to be worshipped; and he will have his worshippers, as Christ also will have His.

The glory of Christ that will soon be revealed will draw that line, and compel all men to either choose Christ and receive His seal or be sealed by the enemy.

Atheism is a world-view that won't survive till the end of the age. Even the Devil doesn't fully support it, its just a means to an end for him. The enemy seeks worshippers, just like the Father.

philfearon:

If You have eyes and brain,You will realise that peoples eyes are being opened to the Falsehood of Religion everyday.......We are no longer in the age of believe without reason or Questions,The world has moved on,And religionists seems to be the only ones left behind!!

doubleDx:



Gibberish!! And what are you doing advocating for Satanists on a Satanic thread if you are NOT a Satanist (A servant of Satan)? Like I said earlier, all atheists are Satanists, period!....Satan is your god! Stay put in your delusion! Your judgement will not tarry

Religionists left behind? As in followers of Christ or what? Because last I checked, you were supporting Satanism, which is also a religion Smh!

How would any one in their right senses think denying the existence of the Creator of all things is wisdom? Foolishness at its peak!

kevoh:
How some people on this thread have failed to see or pretended not to see the intolerance of the Christians in Florida as exposed by the article is way beyond me.

philfearon:

And that Creator is who bro?

doubleDx:


The one and only savior Jehovah YHWH, the creator of all things seen and unseen and the giver of the breath/spirit that dwells in you!

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land- the LORD is his name.

Job 9:8-9

Who alone stretches out the heavens And tramples down the waves of the sea. He made all the stars--the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.

Jeremiah 51:15

He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.


All glory to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, forever. Amen!!

philfearon:

You are just misguided bro.....You really are misguided!!

TheTerrible:


and you are....guided, uhn? But by whom, by what? Not Jesus, not satan......oh oh oh by your sinful heart!

And from the beginning the sinless good one was Jesus and the sinful bad one was satan.
Thereby, making you a worshipper of satan!

philfearon:

You are lost bro,but My Father loves you!!
Let me ask you a simple question: Between the bomb maker and the bomb activator,who is the real murderer?

BossTtdiamonds:
@OP exactly what is your aim/what do you intend on achievin' openin' tis' thread... You're an athiest afterall why should you care?

AlfaSeltzer:


Irrelevant.

philfearon:

You are lost bro,but My Father loves you!!
Let me ask you a simple question: Between the bomb maker and the bomb activator,who is the real murderer?

philfearon:

If You have eyes and brain,You will realise that peoples eyes are being opened to the Falsehood of Religion everyday.......We are no longer in the age of believe without reason or Questions,The world has moved on,And religionists seems to be the only ones left behind!!

asalimpo:


the world has moved on to wat?
Yeah it has advanced technologically but how better is it without religion?
Has world peace increased?
Has crime been extinguished - tech advances only spurn newer types of it.?
Have marraiges become more stable?
Has s.exual crimes abated - it's gettng entrenched now?

Has greed and financial crimes reduced?

Hav humans become more courteous to each other?

How morally advanced has the world become?

TheTerrible:


That's cheap, Jesus (my Father) loves both you and your father!
Come to Jesus, He is the bomb diffuser