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LINK The 'Satanic Panic' is back, ruining lives with baseless accusations

The “Satanic Panic” was a conspiracy theory that really took hold among a certain kind of Christian in the 1980s. Perfectly innocent people were accused of ritualistic child abuse, bad behavior was blamed on the devil, and the modern-day witch hunt ruined countless lives. No evidence ever proved this organized abuse was occurring—certainly not the way accusers insisted it was—but as with so many conspiracy theories, its power had nothing to do with the facts.

Conspiracy theories have never gone away, obviously, but as NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny writes in a truly disturbing article, the more recent versions of right-wing, religious conspiracy theories are taking pages from the Satanic Panic handbook. ...

snytiger6 9 Sep 16
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And whatever you do, don't, for God's sake don't let your kids play Dungeons & Dragons!!

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It's easier go with here say, than putting forth effort get facts from books that are not the bible.

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It's truly bizarre to see otherwise functional adults claiming that the people who disagree with them are being controlled by invisible magical fairies.

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Humanity has perpetually been at war with itself!

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More & more weirdness as the disconnect between real life & what their evangelical ranter/leaders exhort them to believe......

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