Elementary School Offering Satanic Studies? NAR Gets Masterfully Trolled - By Anthony Wade

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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It's been a blessed time of respite from Rev. Wade's incendiary posts. We have not had reason to comment on his writings because he is fixated on the NAR and hates Republicans and conservatives, so his dozens of recent articles articles contain nothing new.

Today he levels his guns at those who want their children to have the opportunity to have time away from the endless barrage of wokeism and get some good, old fashioned Christianity.

In his scriptureless "devotional" he will disparage those who want their children to be able to attend religious classes during the school day, but will write approvingly of Satanists for their wonderful tolerance.

Rev. Wade barely disguises his left-wing proclivities. He pretends to teach about Christianity, but his articles are actually political screeds and leftist agitprop sloppily dressed up with a veneer of Christianese.

Ordinarily we would tag this with "bad Bible teaching," but there is no Bible teaching here at all. 

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 The Charisma News headline blared out something that seemed almost too bad to be true - "Elementary School Offering Satanic Studies!" It seemed like such obvious clickbait, that Charisma is renowned for, that I passed it by until this morning when I saw the report offered on a mainstream news website. So, I decided to take a look at the above link from Charisma and see how they framed this true story, whose blame can be laid directly at the feet of the NAR dominionist church. (Oh. Satanists in schools is the fault of the NAR. Let's see if Rev. Wade gives us evidence for this claim.)

I have constantly tried to warn that this country is not a theocracy, so when you pass rules and laws to benefit your religion by mixing it with the state, (So the NAR passed rules and laws to benefit Christianity? What laws are those?)

you open Pandora's Box for any other religion as well. (It's not these supposed NAR laws that benefit other religions. Christianity was in the schools since the inception of our country up until the early 1960s. The NAR wasn't even around when Christianity was given the boot from schools.

Those groups demanding access to schools are able to do so by appealing to constitutional provisions [albeit misinterpreted], and are facilitated by Christ haters. In fact, anti-christ powers have been accessing public institutions for many decades, while simultaneously excluding Christianity from those institutions.

Therefore, those who want access for Christians are simply attempting to restore what we had before Christianity was banned.

Basically, Rev. Wade has it backwards.)

There is a reason why the founders believed in the separation of church and state and please do not fall for the brain-dead NAR talking points that try and pretend they did not want that. (Dissent from Rev. Wade's opinion is not just wrong, but brain dead. This is why we tag our posts about him with "scorched earth discernment.")

They absolutely did and to claim otherwise is to show a breathtaking stupidity (He piles on. Brain dead and now breathtaking stupidity. Disagreeing with Rev. Wade means that one is a complete idiot, ignorant, and probably evil. Thus he frames the issue as his opinion being the only choice.)

when it comes to the history of this country. That essential part of the founder's philosophy was not to shut Christianity out (??? Rev. Wade is complaining about theocracy, remember? He wants Christianity shut out because otherwise it opens the door for every religion, remember? )

but rather to prevent any and all religions from taking over the government. (Rev. Wade mentioned the separation of church and state, which has nothing to do with religion taking over government. The principle was articulated by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptists to assure them that government was enjoined from meddling in religion. 

Again Rev. Wade has it backwards.)

They did not want the systems they escaped from which relied upon religious dogma to dictate many public institution's direction. (Yet at their behest Christianity was heavily entangled in their newly formed government. How does Rev. Wade explain this?)

The NAR does not care though because of their staggering arrogance and they just never thought ahead as to what the consequences might be. Allowing Christian prayer in school for example, means that Muslim prayer has to be allowed on equal footing. (As we mentioned, Christian prayer was in schools before it was banned as unconstitutional, beginning with Engel v. Vitale in 1962. There were no Muslim prayers in schools prior to 1962. The presence of Christian practices in schools for 150 years did not create a surge of other religions wanting access.

Rev. Wade is completely wrong, dare we say brain dead and breathtakingly stupid. No, we shall not do so. Rev. Wade is mistaken and perhaps deceived.)

Allowing the Ten Commandments in a courthouse paves the way for other religions to be equally represented as well. (Here is a picture of the US Supreme Court building in Washington DC: 

Who is that fellow in the center? Let's zoom in:

Oh, it's Moses, holding the two tablets representing the Ten Commandments. Did the NAR carve this frieze? 

Various Christian symbols are found all over Washington DC. Was it the NAR who caused all this to happen?

For 150 years the nation was influenced by Christianity [or more specifically, completely comfortable with mutual cooperation]. Where were all these other religions during this time? Why didn't they infiltrate schools back then?)

So, let us reason once more through this bizarre short story above.

"An elementary school in Marysville, Ohio, is offering a "satanic studies" program. The Hellion Academy of Independent Learning (HAIL) program serves as a "religious release" period for children. The Satanic Temple operates the program. June Everett, described by NBC 4 as the "campaign director for the After School Satan Club and an ordained minister for the Satanic Temple," said a parent reached out to the Satanic Temple, requesting a program be implemented at the school. "We aren't trying to shut the LifeWise Academy down, but I do think a lot of school districts don't realize when they open the door for one religion, they open it for all of them," Everett said." - Charisma News

In 2014 the NAR church leaders and influencers in the cultural mountain of government thought it would be cool to mix public school with Christianity. They created the religious release program that allowed schools to release students early to engage in religious studies. (Rev. Wade keeps tripping over himself, mostly because he so completely buys in to the mythology of the political Left. Yes, Rev. Wade is a leftist. 

Released Time is not something that the NAR just conjured up:

The original idea of released time in the United States was first discussed in 1905 at a school conference in New York City. The proposal was that public elementary schools should be closed one day a week, in addition to Sunday, so that parents could have their children receive religious instruction outside the school premises. This idea was later implemented by Dr. William Albert Wirt, an educator and superintendent of the school district of Gary, Indiana, in 1914. 

Rev. Wade is beclowning himself.)

I am surprised it took ten years for someone else to take advantage of this absurdity but now we have what appears to be the most excellent example of trolling the NAR I have seen in some time. June Everett, a minister at the Satanic Temple tried to explain what many Christians cannot understand:

"We are not devil worshipers. Different Satanists across the United States will give you different answers depending on how they personally believe. But as a whole, we are non-theistic, meaning we don't believe in any supernatural deities and that includes, you know, God or Satan." - June Everett

Please, I am not suggesting that this means they are harmless, far from it. That is not the point. The point is this is the end result of trying to Christianize the country, instead of preaching the gospel and letting people be drawn by the Holy Spirit. Realize that a parent reached out to Everett and asked for this. You cannot continue to show disdain for the lost and think you can shove our beliefs down their throats. At some point, they will push back. Like Everett or not, she is 100% correct when she says that when you open the door for one religion, you open the door to all of them. (Oh, so that's where Rev. Wade got this oft-repeated talking point, from the Satan worshiper. In other words, he agrees with the devil on this point, and has made it the central argument of his article.)

'Each lesson in LifeWise, a Christian program, focuses on three areas: Head, Heart and Hands.

The curriculum is "designed to take students through the entire Bible, beginning in Genesis and ending in Revelation," LifeWise's website says. "Each lesson reviews a Bible passage as well as a 'Living LifeWise' character trait. The lessons' order and activities are flexible and can be modified as the teacher finds necessary." The Satanic Temple described the HAIL program as a program for students that "allows them to learn about values such as empathy, compassion, and justice in a fun environment without religious pressure or coercion." "Any students who choose not to attend are later regaled with stories of fun activities and warnings from their classmates that they will surely burn in hell for not participating," the Satanic Temple added. "These programs have been heavily pushed in recent years by groups such as Lifewise Academy and Joy El Club."' - Charisma News

Now, if you removed the fact that the HAIL Program was held at the Satanic Temple, both curricula descriptions sound perfectly reasonable for children, no? LifeWise uses biblical characters to teach positive traits, which I can only assume means they stay away from some of the more salacious biblical characters? (Displaying his Leftist bonafides once again, he levels an attack on the Bible because it tells about the many moral indiscretions of its characters.)

Or maybe they just put a fresh coat of Christianese on them? The nuances of King David being and adulterer and murderer yet still a man after God's heart is probably not best designed for kids to understand. (Really, Rev. Wade? You're speculating on the contents of the LifeWise program, wondering if it teaches about murder and adultery? What? Why?)

Notice that the HAIL program is teaching empathy, compassion and justice, free of religious pressure and coercion. (After noting his disapproval of the salacious details of Bible characters, he turns approvingly to the HAIL program's superior values.)

Note the word coercion. That is how the lost view what silly laws such us this really are. We are not supposed to try and coerce people into our faith beloved. (The presence of Bible information in schools is coercive, but the HAIL program is not? What?

We are absolutely convinced that Rev. Wade. is incapable of clear thinking.)

The poke they make about telling people who do not go that they will surely burn in hell might sound mean but it basically is just the trolling coming full circle. (Rev. Wade approves of HAIL once again.)

The message from the NAR to the lost is about them going to hell, (??? This is a central teaching of historic Christianity.)

so why be offended when someone simply co-opts your position? (??? Who is offended? About what?)

Make no mistake about it beloved. Ohio now has to allow students to leave school early to attend a class at the local Satanic Temple because of the NAR -period full stop. (No, the Ohio government voted to allow parents the choice of doing this, not because of the NAR, but because the removal of Christianity from the schools has caused numerous problems. Other religions competing for their part was never a problem in the early 20th century. In fact, this is a developing problem based on the idea that publicly-funded schools must be secular, excruciatingly fair, and serve the state's interest rather than the parent's.)

 When you hear all of the seven mountains nonsense it may sound good. Prayer in schools might tickle the ears but that is only because Christianity is still largely in charge. Who knows what the demographics will look like 10 years, fifty years from now? (Rev. Wade opposes Christianity in the schools because of what might happen later. Puerile.)

I am sure in 2014 Ohioans thought this was a great idea. Just ten years later however and here we are. Thirty three percent of this country are either non-Christian identified or not affiliated at all. Forty million people have left the church in the past 25 years alone. The great apostasy is well underway. All the world hears from the church is judgment and hatred. (All we hear from Rev. Wade is hatred of the NAR and those who would want to stem the flow of godlessness in our institutions.)

Then they watch as they pass draconian laws or advocate for rules that appear to only benefit the Christian faith. That is not how our country was birthed or currently exists. It never was and never will be a theocracy. Keep mixing church and state but do not whine when other churches and faiths take advantage of the same exact nonsense. Preach the gospel - leave those imaginary cultural mountains far, far behind.