High School senior infiltrates school ‘Satan’ club led by middle-aged satanist

A high school senior in Olathe, Kansas infiltrated a now-defunct after-school Satan club, only to find it led by a middle-aged devil satanist.

Media around the country have reported on the growth of these after-school Satan clubs as a student led affair, but as a new report by the Olathe teen shows, behind the facade are adults— specifically, the Satanic Temple, which has a full-time campaign director dedicated to starting the clubs.

Max Pacheco, a devout Christian and a senior at Spring Hill High School, said the club at his school was supposed to be student-led, and he was surprised to see a middle-age woman in charge. 

“They have a member, representative from the Satanic Temple there, who’s basically talking about their goal and their mission in the club and kind of how they, what they were wanting to do,” Pacheco told Pete Mundo at Kansas City’s KCMO radio. 

Pacheco said the woman did the majority of the talking throughout the meeting.  

The Satanic Temple has insisted it is a non-theistic religious organization that doesn’t worship the devil, but simply supports humanism. 

But Pacheco rejected the explanation after what he witnessed by the adult moderator of the Spring Hill High group. 

“She was probably a middle aged woman, and had a necklace with a sigil [seal] Lucifer charm as the centerpiece, basically spoke of her belief in self-worship, rejection of divine intervention in her life,” he said. 

The lady moderator said that “Satan was a superior liberator” and spoke of God as a “repressive tyrant,” Pacheco added.  

The club is now defunct as far as Pacheco is aware.  

At the time of the club’s creation, over 6,000 people signed a petition opposing it, reported the Kansas City Star. 

“This deeply troubles me and many others in our community as we believe that schools should be places of education and growth, not platforms for satanic indoctrination or controversial practices,” the petition reads, said the Star.  

But the petition didn’t deter the After School Satan Clubs’ campaign director from fighting back.  

“A lot of people think we’re devil worshipers. We’re clearly not,” claimed June Everett, from the Satanic Temple. “People are very upset when they hear the big ‘S’ word. But anyone who takes a minute to look into what we are will see we are atheists. We do not believe in God or Satan, and those who align with The Satanic Temple don’t worship any deity.” 

Pacheco first infiltrated the group because he wanted to “slowly, over time” expose members to Christian beliefs to “try to either bring people away or maybe think of new things.”  

He said he thought the appeal of the group was to kids who were “lost” or felt like “outcasts.” 

Even though he said the numbers of students attending the meeting was only 7-10 members, he was still surprised when it shut down. 

Pacheco said that he thinks younger Christians need to be “running toward the fight not away from it,” when it comes to being socially engaged, by “pushing back through the Gospel” and evangelizing. 

He said the energy among youth for God’s message in the face of progressive cynicism and Satanism is high. 

“We’re just tired of having everything shoved down our throats … And, you know, it’s everywhere. It’s in the schools, it’s in businesses, it’s on movies and TV, it’s absolutely everywhere. And so we’re just sick and tired of it. But yeah, there is definitely an uprising,” he said.