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KentuckyWoman

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23. The damage is long lasting and real ...

Reply to rpannier (Original post)

Sun Jul 11, 2021, 08:40 PM

Jul 2021

I personally know a family torn apart in the late 80's. The 16 yr old girl ended up in the hospital nearly died due to anorexia. The parents had tried for several years to help her every way they could think of. At some point a psychiatrist decided to try hypnosis on her and managed to convince her she'd been repeatedly raped as a baby by her grandpa and uncle.

There was a church - House of Prayer in Atlanta, the parents along with the preacher was beating kids half to death with the belief they had demons in them that had to be cast out.

There was even people who jumped on the bandwagon of occultism to milk the churches ... I remember comedian Mike Warnke making a quite a name claiming he was a former Satanic Priest turned evangelical christian, eventually proved a liar after appearing on 20/20.

I don't know if any religion has caused more damage to humanity than Christianity, but it has to be near the top.

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Conviction of Things Not Seen: The Uniquely American Myth of Satanic Cults [View all] rpannier Jul 2021 OP

Yes the Mcmartin case was a travesty jimfields33 Jul 2021 #1

Many Americans have been gullible idiots... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2021 #2

Wow. There is a lot to unpack in that. The article is unique and correct in that it posits that Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #3

Where do you suppose they got the German Shepherds? Effete Snob Jul 2021 #5

Gosh. That proves it! You have totally debunked everything! Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #12

It's just a question Effete Snob Jul 2021 #17

There was a so called Satanic cult Elessar Zappa Jul 2021 #8

Yeah, I'm not going to give you any heat slightlv Jul 2021 #9

I never said pentagrams equal satanism. I'm just telling you they were there. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #11

And that was probably LeVey's group slightlv Jul 2021 #18

There's no reason to assume it was part of a larger group. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #24

I wish this were its own OP, so that I could kick and rec. Would you niyad Jul 2021 #13

Hi, niyad slightlv Jul 2021 #19

No need to worry. Apart from the usual DU rules, the primary rule is that it has to be niyad Jul 2021 #22

"Written by Smith and her psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder, whom she later married" Bucky Jul 2021 #4

Yeah it is a MESS. I've read the book and it's something else. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2021 #10

Yes, that caught my attention as well. Merlot Jul 2021 #15

Let's burn the witch. multigraincracker Jul 2021 #6

There is a recent re-hash of this phenomenon Effete Snob Jul 2021 #7

None of this is new to many of us. I pointed out in an OP quite some time ago that there niyad Jul 2021 #14

i was raising kids in those years. mopinko Jul 2021 #16

And Fundies talk about "Cancel Culture" Deep State Witch Jul 2021 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Deep State Witch Jul 2021 #21

The damage is long lasting and real ... KentuckyWoman Jul 2021 #23

I looked up Mike Warnke on Wikipedia, A.M. Kittenplan Jul 2021 #25

During satanic panic I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2021 #26

Never understood this thing. If you don't believe in a overseeing god of the Bible GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #27