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AZSkiffyGeek

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58. I always heard We Are Sex Perverts

Sun Sep 10, 2023, 01:17 PM

Sep 2023

But there were so many stupid fake acronyms
Ruled Under Satans Hand
Anti-Christ/Devil Child
There were some televangelists who made a lot of money on the Satanic Panic.
There was some Christian comedian/evangelist who made his name as a “former high priest of Satan” who sacrificed kids, or some nonsense before it came out he was a fraud.
I remember another I used to listen to on the radio who would perform on air exorcisms.
Then there was all the nonsense about Proctor and Gamble products containing the mark of the beast.
I used to buy all those Satanic Panic rock music books for a laugh, and to get suggestions of albums to buy.

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Who remembers the "Satanic panic" of the 80s? [View all] AntivaxHunters Sep 2023 OP

Kick dalton99a Sep 2023 #1

Remember being at a bar playing Cosmic Wimpout and being told to put it away as they didn't like it. TheBlackAdder Sep 2023 #36

Someone else who's heard of Cosmic Wimpout! I love that game. crickets Sep 2023 #95

Yep. It was pretty galling that people who actually believed in evil spirits... JHB Sep 2023 #2

Religion is a form of escapism Shermann Sep 2023 #6

Escape NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #38

Heavy metal/D&D fan checking in Shermann Sep 2023 #3

"Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head. Oh Mr. Cowley, did you really talk to the dead?" sarcasmo Sep 2023 #22

Well that was Ozzy Shermann Sep 2023 #33

Finding out that Geezer and Tony were evangelicals was so ironic AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2023 #59

+1 orangecrush Sep 2023 #84

Didn't he eat the head of a bat one time? LeftInTX Sep 2023 #86

Yeah, he bit the head off a bat onstage and had to get rabies shots AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2023 #91

Ha! I recognize a "Thrud the Babarian" minature JHB Sep 2023 #4

It ruined a lot of innocent people's lives. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #5

People who ran a childcare in my town went to prison for decades catrose Sep 2023 #30

Didn't know the "National Coalition on Television violence", so googled - oh, the irony muriel_volestrangler Sep 2023 #7

More Kooks NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #40

Republicans indulge in moral panics to scare parents into giving the right their own way meow2u3 Sep 2023 #8

I think some of it was concern about "bad influences" on kids LeftInTX Sep 2023 #9

Don't Recall NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #43

I did not know of the board game. I remember "Mazes and Monsters" and other events. John1956PA Sep 2023 #10

Yah it's not really a board game... sometimes we call it a "tabletop" game... AnrothElf Sep 2023 #18

Thank you for clarifying. Stephen Colbert and Joe Magliano are players. John1956PA Sep 2023 #21

I've been running a Middle-earth campaign since I was a college sophomore in 1987. Efilroft Sul Sep 2023 #87

i had a rotten teenager at the time. mopinko Sep 2023 #11

Dungeons & Dragons was not at the center of the Satanic panic. It more often involved accusations Martin68 Sep 2023 #12

Yes, it was just part of a bigger push, and you just described what a "witch hunt" actually is. Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #32

Many see the Qanon conspiracy theory as just a continuation of the original Satanic Panic, with a Martin68 Sep 2023 #44

Indeed, projection and distraction. "Look over there!" Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #56

Absolute truth! Trailrider1951 Sep 2023 #64

Yes, it's been an eye-opener to find out exactly what exactly was going on. Maybe the Satanic Panic Martin68 Sep 2023 #81

Now they all growed up and see satan everywhere. That's why they're votin' tRump. eom Marcus IM Sep 2023 #13

My son was an avid D & D player. He still has hundreds of dollars worth of sinkingfeeling Sep 2023 #14

The "satanic panic" went far beyond D&D..included the whole satanic niyad Sep 2023 #15

Exactly, well remembered. We saw it in real time. Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #37

Remember Tipper Gore? Tipper's Tirade against certain bands? CaptainTruth Sep 2023 #16

+1 dalton99a Sep 2023 #51

And then Joe Liberman, having learned absolutely nothing, went after video games. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2023 #90

I remember thinking it was idiotic relayerbob Sep 2023 #17

The connection is: The Drag-Queen / TG moral panic is similarly way overblown these days. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2023 #19

Remember the hullaballo about P&G's symbol? SouthernDem4ever Sep 2023 #20

Wow NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #47

How well I remember it! The first time I was told, in a hushed, frightened niyad Sep 2023 #52

It was more of a curiousity than anything. Maybe a five minute segment on the news LeftInTX Sep 2023 #62

You mean just to you or in general? SouthernDem4ever Sep 2023 #63

To me. I remember seeing it on my Crest toothpaste as a kid. Thought it was cool. LeftInTX Sep 2023 #70

The evangelical/fundamentalist community was fountain of this sort of breathlessly-repeated... JHB Sep 2023 #71

I remember an idiot informing me that the ankh I had was a satanic symbol. niyad Sep 2023 #76

Qanon combines old antisemitic tropes and satanic panic IronLionZion Sep 2023 #23

I did read somewhere Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #26

Good, but it evolves into other panics IronLionZion Sep 2023 #31

True. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #34

Almost as if they're all the same panic, just...dressed in drag, if you will. Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #39

Qanon is not declining. The recent movie, "Sound of Freedom," has breathed new life into the whole Martin68 Sep 2023 #48

40 years later and that Newsweek article reads like a parody. TheRickles Sep 2023 #24

KISS Knights In Satan's Service QED Sep 2023 #25

W.A.S.P. - We Are Satan's Priests Shermann Sep 2023 #42

I always heard We Are Sex Perverts AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2023 #58

My older cousin loved Slayer. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #60

My parents thought it was mostly nonsense AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2023 #61

And the evil backward masking on ROCK AND ROLL records. progressoid Sep 2023 #27

Yep. "We'll tell you what it says, THEN play it." Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #41

I remember some holier-than-thous coming to our church in the 70s to warn us youths of the dangers progressoid Sep 2023 #45

Oh yes, the power of the negative recommendation! You had good instincts. Bongo Prophet Sep 2023 #54

Oh, God, yes I remember this period chowmama Sep 2023 #28

Jordan Minnesota NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #49

It wasn't Jordan, but I remember that one, too. chowmama Sep 2023 #85

I can only wish those moralizing fuzzbrains could have seen what a session of D&D was really like. Aristus Sep 2023 #29

I had a group of friennds who were completely into D&D, and we are talking niyad Sep 2023 #53

You were right to get out of there, and I'm sorry you had an unpleasant experience. Aristus Sep 2023 #55

It was just something I never got into, as I do not with many popular things. niyad Sep 2023 #65

HA! That's a memorable birthday! Aristus Sep 2023 #67

There's nothing wrong with being into D&D in your 30s and 40s. meadowlander Sep 2023 #74

WOW. You read an awful lot into that post that I did not say. Why is that? niyad Sep 2023 #78

Why did you feel the need to say meadowlander Sep 2023 #83

Kick emulatorloo Sep 2023 #35

that was during my middle school/high school years prodigitalson Sep 2023 #46

The minions of Satan I most commonly encountered in those days called themselves "Christians" and... hunter Sep 2023 #50

I remember not being allowed to get the Dungeons & Dragons board game Polybius Sep 2023 #57

Our Chicago D&D group hosted a Newsweek reporter bigmonkey Sep 2023 #66

Dark Dungeons!!! hatrack Sep 2023 #72

I had one of my parish priests nervously asking me about D&D with one of those in hand JHB Sep 2023 #94

In grad school they were doing LEO courses on essentially Satanism in crime JCMach1 Sep 2023 #68

The fundies came for our D&D with a stupid game called "Light bringers," where we fought evil by GPV Sep 2023 #69

I played D&D in the 80s meadowlander Sep 2023 #73

Remembering Michelle...the book that fueled the flames Maeve Sep 2023 #75

An evil spirit stalked the country: Reagan was elected and re-elected, despite struggle4progress Sep 2023 #77

Yep! Along with "Just say No"! LeftInTX Sep 2023 #79

"Let's smuggle drugs for the contras!" Just say no! struggle4progress Sep 2023 #82

Yes, it was really nasty. Archae Sep 2023 #80

The part of it that ruined the most lives was the scaremongering about day care... JHB Sep 2023 #88

The McMartin case began this way... Archae Sep 2023 #92

Me and my knuckles and knees. apnu Sep 2023 #89

Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons was a devout Christian. Go figure. Xolodno Sep 2023 #93