[Gee8r9]

Satan has a very strong meaning in Islam and other religions. This would not be possible in France or UK.

[defrost]

It's entirely possible in the UK, it's just simply not very popular anymore as the region has already seen a major push back against overbearing Christian practices and pushed most of them out to the Americas and elsewhere.

Today there are on the order of a 100 or so committed Satanists in the UK according to:

Journal of Contemporary Religion: Satanism in Britain today (1995) - Graham Harvey

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1353790950858074...

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/13537909508580747

    This paper discusses the views and activities of self‐identified Satanists in Britain, especially the Temple of Set, the Church of Satan, the Order of the Nine Angles and Dark Lily. It also comments on ad hoc, adolescent and multi‐generational Satanism.

    Satanism is a series of techniques for allowing individuals to affirm, develop and express themselves, and to do what they wish to do in the context of a spirituality.

    It does not require belief in the Satan of the Christian pantheon although thriving on the sinister image and the hostility it can evoke in Christians and the media.

    Satanism is an adversarial form of self‐religion.

...

    There are Satanists in Britain.

    There are six groups who between them have less than 100 members.

    There are more people who read Satanist magazines or have bought books by Satanists, e.g. Anton LaVey's

Satanic Bible (1969).

    Again they are few in number compared to the scare-estimate.

    A larger number of people—some adolescents—name themselves Satanists, but belong to no formal or organised Satanist group.

[ziddoap]

As a note, The Satanic Temple was founded in 2013, and rejects many of the Church of Satan's beliefs (as well as other Satanic organizations).

Both papers linked are prior to 2013.

See https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/church-of-satan-vs-satani...

[defrost]

A schism in interpretation and belief certainly seems very Christian.

[bediger4000]

Look up Twelvers, Isma'ili, Alawite, etc etc. Every major religion has schims.

[yongjik]

On the other hand, students in France or UK don't have to do active shooter drills.

Different countries, different social problems, different styles of bigots, and different solutions.

[dekhn]

it's really just a tax form in the US: https://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Religion

[gridspy]

Are you claiming there is no religious freedom in France and the UK?

[Gee8r9]

There is no bacon in school cafeteria...

[rsynnott]

British schools are apparently damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

In the real world, they’re criticised for serving carcinogenic bacon (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/02/thousands-...), meanwhile in the imagination of weird internet people they have banned bacon.

[ben_w]

In the UK? That's probably just budget cuts. Even 25 years ago when I was a kid myself, the cafeterias were on a shoestring budget.

I can't remember if there was or wasn't bacon back then, owing to vegetarian diet I never asked about the meats.

[orwin]

You also have to serve an alternative. Source: I've worked with French schools in a previous life.