The Satanic Temple will offer an optional religious class at an elementary school in Ohio.
The program is called Hellions Academy of Independent Learning, or HAIL, and will be offered to children at the Edgewood Elementary School in the Marysville School District.
‘We are not devil worshipers. We are non-theistic Satanists.’
HAIL’s program director, June Everett, told WSYX-TV that they will allow students to learn about concepts like empathy, compassion, and justice without religious coercion.
“When they hear it, it’s initially shocking, oh the Satanic Temple,” Everett explained. “They automatically think evil and awful things. We are not devil worshipers. We are non-theistic Satanists.”
The program will be offered as part of a Release Time Religious Instruction program. Students have been allowed to be released from school to study at Christian programs, so parents called on the Satanic Temple to create an alternative according…
