{"id":183259,"date":"2015-01-14T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/14\/ave-satanas\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:38:00","slug":"ave-satanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/14\/ave-satanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ave Satanas*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satanists in Florida have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/01\/14\/florida_school_district_holds_plans_to_allow_distribution_of_bibles_due_to_satanic_temple\/\">convinced a Florida school district not to hand out bibles because they would have to hand out Satan coloring books<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/09\/16\/satanic_temple_hands_out_activity_books_to_schools_in_response_to_judicial_ruling\/\">In September of last year the Satanic Temple<\/a> revealed plans to disseminate the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesatanictemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Activity_Book.pdf\">\u201cSatanic Children\u2019s Big Book of Activities,\u201d<\/a> to kids in a Florida school district. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Satanic Temple along with the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) were responding to a ruling, which let the Orange County school district allow religious and atheist organizations to distribute materials \u2014 including bibles and other pamphlets \u2014 in public schools. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Since religious and atheist materials could be handed out, the Satanic Temple made a request to hand out the aforementioned activity book, while the Freedom From Religion Foundation planned to hand out a pamphlet describing the bible as an \u201cX-rated book.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now, the Satanic Temple\u2019s request has the school district rethinking its policy, and the district is currently putting the distribution of all religious paraphernalia on hold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/01\/florida-schools-bow-to-satanic-coloring-book-and-cancel-bible-distribution-event\/\">according to WFTV-TV<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/my-mom-once-threatened-this.html\">4 months ago<\/a>, my Mother used this tactic when I was a wee las, when the then superintendent of the Charlottesville public schools permitted Christian bibles to be handed out at schools.<\/p>\n<p>Same results too. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Latin for, &#8220;Hail Satan.&#8221;  Note that Jewish concept of Satan is very different from the one that Christianity took from Zoroastrianism.  In fact a number of sages posited that the dialogues with Satan in the book of Job were an internal dialogue God was having.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satanists in Florida have convinced a Florida school district not to hand out bibles because they would have to hand out Satan coloring books: In September of last year the Satanic Temple revealed plans to disseminate the \u201cSatanic Children\u2019s Big Book of Activities,\u201d to kids in a Florida school district. The Satanic Temple along with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,968,1021,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-education","category-religion","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}