Satanism Coming to Public Schools

Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D.

At first I thought it was a hoax. A reader sent me a notice that the Satanic Temple (ST) has announced that this coming year it will be sponsoring 'After School Satan Clubs' in public schools across the country. ”Educatin’ With Satan” is how it was described.

 Clubs for Satan demanded in the name of religious liberty

It is not a joke. I went to the website and saw what I never expected to see in my lifetime: Satanism being promoted openly for children. The “Educatin’ with Satan” page directs the reader to a very eerie music video with grinning children playing with spiders and walking backwards, all to the background of haunting and frightful devilish music and queer guttural intonations. I fear that curses and spells are linked to this propaganda, so I do not advise my reader to view it.

The Satanic Temple claims its right to propagate its so-called religion in the name of tolerance and religious liberty. Thus, it boldly states its aim for its new project to inculcate children with Satanism:

“It’s important that children be given an opportunity to realize that the evangelical materials now creeping into their schools are representative of but one religious opinion amongst many. While the [evangelical] Good News Clubs focus on indoctrination, instilling them with a fear of Hell and God’s wrath, After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us."

It is unabashed Satanism for children, costumed to appear modern and rational and, of course, tolerant. The website’s Satan Shop – again, I am not joking – even offers a Satanic Children's Big Activities Book, among its t-shirts (Hail Satan), key chains and busts of Baphomet (a bronze one for $40,000, the $80 model has already 'sold out').

Casually introducing Satanic symbols into children's minds

The children's Activity Book presents Satanic symbols as innocent and normal: Little Annabel shows the class her Satanic ritual, Damian connects the dots to make an inverted pentagram, etc. "Hail Satan!" writes one enthused reviewer. "And have fun, kids!"

The Satanic Temple demands the right to distribute these activity books at any school where Bibles and other religious material are handed out. And they are already doing it. Some school districts in Florida, California and Colorado have already started allowing atheists and satanists to distribute their warped material.

How did this happen? The Satanists base their action on the liberty granted in our Constitution, the same rights of liberty demanded by the French Revolution. After the Supreme Court ruled that a public school that allows use of its facilities to secular groups may not discriminate against religious groups, in 2008, the ST, which have registered under Bush administration specifications to receive government funds as a religion, could claim equal rights to offer their own after school clubs.

ST spokesperson, Lucien Greaves, explains the plan: “School districts across the nation are now receiving letters from the Satanic Temple explaining that we will be offering our clubs in their schools this coming school year and parents in those schools can expect to be presented with a permission slip from their children in the first weeks of the Fall semester. All of the districts we’ve approached are nearby to local chapters of the Satanic Temple, and each school district has hosted, or is now hosting, Good News Clubs in their schools.

“This being the case, we are sure that the school districts we’ve approached are well aware that they are not at liberty to deny us use of their facilities, nor are they at liberty to deny us any level of representation in the schools that they afford to other school clubs – such as fliers, tables, brochures and school-wide announcements. We would like to thank the Liberty Counsel, specifically, for opening the doors of public schools to the After School Satan Club through their dedication to religious liberty.”

Another unthinkable victory for Satan that comes in the name of religious liberty. It shocks, but should not surprise us. A society that rejects the rights of God, the Creator and supreme Truth, opens the door for the reign of Satan, father of the lie and author of all errors.

Black mass & blasphemy against of Our Lady

How far have we traveled down this dark path of tolerance for all beliefs and “non-beliefs”? A few examples suffice to demonstrate the madness we are suffering today in the name of religious liberty.

Open worship of the Devil in Detroit; below, Satan warlock Daniels shows off a black mass altar

In 2014, as reported here, the Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of the Devil Baphomet in Detroit with children adoring him. The same year, for fear of legal backlash, a satanic black mass was allowed in Oklahoma City, despite massive protests.

This year, 2016, an even more audaciously blasphemous "event' is planned for the Oklahoma City Civic Center. On August 15, the Feastday of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven, the Satanic Church of Ahriman will carry out a black mass and ritual-play titled ”The Consumption of Mary,” again despite massive protests.

During the ritual-play, a statue of Our Lady will be blasphemed with menstrual blood and the ashes of a burned Koran. At the end of the ceremony, the statue's head is severed, with the announced aim of releasing a "bellmouth," which means the opening to Hell.

Inside the statue is an actual pig’s heart, boasts Adam Daniels, head of the Satanic cult. After the statue has been smashed, a priestess pulls the heart out of the rubble and eats it, thus “consuming” Mary and ending the ritual.

For the outraged Catholic public, there is no recourse, except protests and signature campaigns. City officials claim they are shackled by the law, which protects free speech and religious liberty. In the case of the 2012 black mass, an Oklahoma City spokesperson abashedly explained that canceling the event would have resulted in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"In the past, when the city has attempted to interfere with an individual's free exercise of speech on our property," he continued, "we have been taken to federal court. We have lost each of those cases at our taxpayers' expense."

So, in the name of practicality (saving taxpayers' dollars) and freedom of speech, the blasphemies against Our Lord and Our Lady are endured, permitted without any concrete measures to stop them. The only ones who have no rights in society anymore are Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Holy Mother.

Tolerance & religious liberty

This liberty for Satan and every evil is the natural consequence of the tolerance for all religions preached by the Revolution and combated by the Church until Vatican II.

At the Council, in the name of adaptation to the world, the Church entered the world and began to champion that all religions have equal rights and treatment under the law. Based on the Conciliar Declaration Dignitatis humanae, the conciliar Popes and Bishops have affirmed that each confession should have the right to “influence” and “order” the temporal sphere. (cf. Atila Guimaraes, Ecclesia, pp. 278-289). How could this unlimited tolerance not end with allowing liberty for Satanism in modern society?

A constant barrage on society via Hollywood and the media to join the 'Satanic Revolution'

And what defenses does the Church have to combat acts like the black masses and blasphemous performances we are witnessing – except for mild reprimands and sighs of disapproval – since she abandoned her doctrine that used to defend and protect herself and society from such evils?

Consider the wise words of Pope Pius VI, who foresaw the disasters to come, should people accept the religious liberty installed as a civil right with the French Revolution. He is explicit in his condemnation of it, calling it a “monstrous right” that “grants full license to propagate even the most disordered imaginings” (Brief Quod aliquantum of March 10, 1791).

We see those monstrosities and disordered imaginings unfolding today in society worldwide. The reign of Satan is beginning. It will not cease until the Church and society reject the “liberty, equality, fraternity” that established the modern world. Until the Church and the State return to the sound Catholic doctrine of the past that combats all the false religions.