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Stereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!" (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Read the book The Demon Haunted World, or at least the parts about satanic panic and charlatans. I really miss Carl Sagan.

I'm curious to hear what other media people recommend on this topic.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My favorite part of the satanic panic was when sometime in the eighties, our local preacher dropped by our house (we were not church goers) and saw a mangled, black candle on our kitchen table. We'd had a power outage recently, and Internet-less, kid-me loved to heat up paper clips over the flames and use them to etch the wax. Totally innocent of any dastardly doings aside from slightly mischievous me. He left in a bit of a hurry and sent along some hilarious VHS tapes decrying the evils of this and that. Particularly Dungeons and Dragons. Which was how I discovered Dungeons and Dragons and how awesome it is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That's hilarious! I remember people saying that D&D led to kids stealing stoplights, and wondering how on earth that had anything to do with satan. I also remember Frank Peretti books (This Present Darkness), and Screwtape Letters.

Edit: also Hell's Bells https://youtu.be/Eu4UWhzwRiI

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn't Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

If that's the worst thing that happened to you because of the boy scouts you got off pretty lucky

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