Ohio Schoolchildren Can Now Spend Part of Their School Day Learning the Teachings of The Satanic Temple Through the State’s Religious Release Program

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The new religious program available to Ohio schools will allow the kids to learn in a satanic temple. This was a request made by parents who are convinced that kids should express empathy and believe in no deity.

The Ohio kids will be taught inside Hellion Academy of Independent Learning Satanic Temple, aka, HAIL. There, they will have a few hours away from school work to boost their non-belief in deities.

This exercise is scheduled to begin in December, and it will last during school hours. For now, the Satanic Temple will provide lectures to kids from Edgewood Elementary School, Marysville. Other schools in the area will also partake in the exercise.

NY Post shares that parents have been named as the major facilitators of this program. The forerunners of HAIL hope to allow other kids to partake in the new religious program. In Ohio, the religious release program allowed the Life Wise Academy to teach kids the bible during school hours. They are allocated 55 minutes once a week and so far, the program is ongoing in over 170 schools.

This new exercise is a great alternative for parents who do not subscribe to biblical teachings. June Everett, a minister in HAIL maintained that parents were not competing with the other side. During her time with WCMH Channel 4, she added that the program invited the alternative.

While they aren’t trying to shut down Life Wise Academy, Everett claimed that there’s an opening for other religions to thrive. The Satanic temple minister revealed that with their program kids will learn empathy, communal living, critical thinking, and expressiveness.

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