Good News Club: After school satanic clubs are a ‘direct attack on teaching Christianity to children’

“Tragedy, crime and shocking behavior sell more news than good news.”

Lydia Kaiser should know: she’s the spokeswoman for the Good News Club, a longtime ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) whose stated mission is to “evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.”

And while CEF has taken its Good News Club and other ministries to thousands of schools across the United States since its founding in 1937, another club — with an entirely different mission — has seemingly pushed its way into the headlines in recent years: the After School Satan Club sponsored by The Satanic Temple (TST).

The reasons behind the rise in notoriety for TST are many, according to Kaiser, who said media outlets play a key role in promoting the satanic organization.

“Sensationalism is picked up by the media and its consumers more easily,” Kaiser told The Christian Post via email.

That’s not just industry standard for more left-leaning media, but conservative outlets as well, said Kaiser, who specifically called out Fox News’ Tucker Carlson as an example of conservative commentators who, while reporting on the satanic clubs, fail to bring up the context in which those clubs are started.

“Sadly, many news people (i.e., Tucker Carlson) spend just enough time on air to raise the ire of the watcher with one more ‘Isn’t it awful?’ story and then quickly move on, not caring to bring up the aspect of the story that Satan clubs are only started in schools with Good News Clubs as a direct attack on teaching Christianity to children,” she said.

“News people love to interview the sensational looking leader of [TST] and don’t care to interview the president of CEF, no matter how many times he is offered.”

Still, when it comes to sheer operational strength, the number of Good News Clubs dwarfs that of satanic clubs by about 5,000 to 5, respectively. CEF also retains a state office in almost every state and has 400 local chapters where staff can train volunteers.

…(Excerpt from The Christian Post)