Parents and local leaders are outraged that a new Satanic Temple after-school club is set to start running sessions at a Tennessee elementary school in January. 

The Satanic Temple is set to host an after-school club at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova, just outside Memphis, in January. 

A flyer about the club says the Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religion that views Satan ‘as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit.’

It called on elementary school-aged children to ‘have fun at after school Satan club.’ 

It says it does not attempt to convert children to any religious ideology, but offers activities that ’emphasize a scientific, rationalistic, non-superstitious worldview.’

Memphis-Shelby County Schools, the school district in charge of Chimneyrock, said in a statement that the district would rent out the space to the organization per its policy.

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