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Ojai's After School Satan Club

American political and religious polarization, right here in Ojai

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Andra Belknap
Jan 24, 2025
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Greetings readers! I really wanted to stay in my research hole and not come out until I have a new installment in my series exploring Ojai homelessness.1

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BUT with hellfire raging across Southern California and an inability to look away from social media — I got distracted by a Facebook post.

Specifically — the establishment of an “After School Satan Club” at my former elementary school. (It’s always something, isn’t it).

Via The Satanic Temple

Obviously, I had to investigate. And what I discovered is this story kicked off last December — that’s according to a pair of Topa Topa Elementary School parents we’ll call A and B2.

“It started when I received a flyer from the school for the Good News Club,” Parent A recalled.

THE GOOD NEWS CLUB

I know — this story is supposed to be about the After School Satan Club. But this drama really kicked off with an on-campus, after-school, Bible-based club sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) of Ventura County and Ojai’s First Baptist Church: the…

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