The organisation known as the Satanic Temple is getting ready to send its chaplains into Florida schools, as a bill edges closer to adoption that allows volunteer chaplains in schools.

The religious group, which does not actually believe in Satan, encourages “effective and artful protest”, according to its website.

In the ten years since its conception, the group has advocated for First Amendment rights, as well as religious freedom, across the United States.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    That’s their solution for mental health?! School chaplains??! Man, this country is so fucked.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      No, their solution is to threaten school chaplains, that way the Satanic Temple trains some secular counselors in reflective listening and developmental psychology in response to the call for religious volunteers Since the Satan Chaplains are working for an activist cause, they’re cheaper than actual counselors. And all the school has to do is admit that an active Satanist works in the school.

      It’s chess on a five-dimensional manifold, man.