SCHOOL STUDENTS GIVEN ATHEIST AND SATANIC LITERATURE

Students in Delta, Colorado-area middle schools and high schools were provided handouts of atheist and satanic literature on April 1 – it was not an April Fools joke – in a bid to pacify parents outraged after the school district handed out free Gideon Bibles to students in December. That Gideons-sponsored event violated the separation of church and state, said parents and – mostly – the group Freedom From Religion, who demanded they be permitted to furnish nonreligious items as well. The literature for Friday included several brochures – one titled “It’s Okay to Not Believe in God!”; one with information on the separation of church and state; and one concerning biblical sex and obscenity that the school district censored with stickers. “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities,” a coloring book authored by The Satanic Temple, was also available. The school district originally ignored the efforts by Freedom From Religion, but relented after noting a similar case in Florida that resulted in an expensive lawsuit that the school district there had lost.
* So – Money Trumps God. That sounds about right.
* Handing out Bibles in school? What could go wrong?
* Why become a Satanist? Satan is doing just fine without any help.
* You know what you get when you don’t have separation of church and state? Saudi Arabia.
* Religion in schools gets so complicated so quickly. You want God in the classroom? Okay, what about religions with more than one God?
* And after you say “the Christian God” remember, some of the biggest battles out there are between different factions with the same Christian God.
* See Northern Ireland for more on that.
* Isn’t April Fool’s Day enough of a satanic joke on its own?