Mirthy
By Mitch Berg
SCENE: Mitch BERG is loading some garage junk into a truck. He doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, whjo is walking up the alley writing down the addresses of homes without handicap parking spots.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Uh…
LIBRELLE: Christian Nationalists can’t handle freedom of religion! They’re having a cow and melting down over a Satan Club at a school!
BERG: Huh.
LIBRELLE: What do you have to say about that?
BERG: Other than “Satanism is a religion in exactly the same way as “The Onion” is, only even less funny? It exists only to mock faith. Well, to mock Christianity. It’s not a worldview. It’s a running adolescent jape.
LIBRELLE: You’re gonna crrrryyyyyyyyyyyy…
BERG: So, if a school had an “Amos and Andy” club, or a “Speedy Gonzales” club, or an “Apu” Club, or a “Boring Basketball” club, do you think Blacks, Latinos, Indian-Americans or women might take umbrage?
(But LIBRELLE is already skipping, literally, down the alley.
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December 21st, 2023 at 7:10 am
According to the Koran, Iblis is the leader of the devils (shayāṭīn) in Islam.
Perhaps, the enlightened hipsters of Minneapolis, could start a club in his honor in the city schools.
Gosh, one has to wonder how that would turn out.
December 21st, 2023 at 7:28 am
From a rational perspective, there is some really weird stuff in Christianity,such as walking on water, raising the dead, virgin birth and the like . One must also admit that Christian nations were host to some rather nasty behavior.
So it is fair game to criticize and maybe even satirize.
Likewise, it is fair game to criticize and satirize all religions who share those flaws, but when the enlightened ones go after one religion but not others – something else is going on.
It is almost like they are building their own religion by going after their main rival.
December 21st, 2023 at 7:56 am
I don’t see the problem. The Satan Club can use the same room as the Rosary Club (it meets daily to pray for victims of abortion), which is right before The Blowjob Club (that’s not the official name, it’s The LGBTQQ+ Club but all they do is sit around practicing, well, anyway) which meets right after The Islam Club finishes teaching girls how far behind a boy to walk in proper subservience.
It’s a busy place, that one room, but with careful scheduling we could accommodate the Satanists and any other religions that want to preach to our children after classes on school grounds. What’s the problem?
December 22nd, 2023 at 5:48 am
So have a local Baptists minister file suit against the school for violation of the establishment clause. Do so with a big smile as they are hoist on their own petard.