Newly added to our downloads page is an annotated reading list concerning the years of The Satanic Panic by Autumn Sword, The Satanic Skeptic. Many of us lived through this harrowing time of urban legends which lead to Christian evangelists having captured time on many talk shows, with their sensationalist and nonsensical claims that there existed a conspiracy of “satanists” out to get your pets, your kids, and to dominate the world while making sloppy graffiti in various public spaces as well as desecrating graveyards in a willy nilly manner. Rampant false claims of ritual child abuse and sacrifice spread like wildfire through the media, and several governments were even receiving proposals for bills banning Satanism as an accepted religion.
While a number of us took to various media to debunk that tidal wave of madness, there are now plenty of younger folk for whom this was a time of myths and legends. This reading list will acquaint you with the period, so that this history can be learned to ensure that it does not get repeated during this recent surge of “pizza gate” conspiracy theories exposing Christian Nationalism’s long-simmering desperation to seize power and subjugate others who will not bow to their pipe dreams of theocracy.
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