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71. The evangelical/fundamentalist community was fountain of this sort of breathlessly-repeated...

Sun Sep 10, 2023, 05:30 PM

Sep 2023

..."satanism is all around us!" scaremongering.

"Did you know that KISS (the band) stands for 'Knights In Service of Satan'?!"
"Did you know the hippy 'peace' sign is actually a satanic symbol?!"

And considering how much of Trump's horsedump they gleefully swallow, the tradition is alive and thriving.

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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