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My freshman year of college (1992) a bunch of students threw a party on May 1 that was like a pagan inspired spring celebration thing in the entrance of an abandoned train tunnel near the campus. There was a bonfire and costumes and people playing drums and stuff. Campus security was called for the noise, when they showed up they freaked out, started shoving students around and everyone began to riot. Then the actual cops showed up and started pepper spraying everyone. Yada yada. It was a big local news story about a campus riot where police were overwhelmed by angry students. Then the dumbest poo poo ever happened, the authorities decided that this was a mass satanic ritual and they got some catholic priest on camera examining the site of the party and with a straight face went around pointing out all the evidence that a satanic cult had organized some sort of demonic kegger there. Shortly after that, a huge steel wall was put up to permanently block the tunnel. The dumbest thing about this was the satanic panic wasn’t about children being corrupted by DnD or heavy metal or whatever, this was about adult age drunk art school students. Laws were probably broken but cops and the mayor were lamely trying to attach “satan” to it for no other reason than to literally cause a panic. If creepy ancient symbols and secret drinking rituals and nudity are what you’re so worried about, go kick in the doors of all the frat houses.
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isaboo posted:I remember local news saying to take your Halloween candy to the hospital to have it x-rayed for razor blades and such Our local police department offered to do that. This past year they brought that whole thing back, but this time they could check your kids candy for fentanyl.
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Jul 24, 2023 17:48
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lol one of my cousins posted the "fentanyl in halloween candy" propaganda on Facebook and I explained to her how it's always been bullshit, way back decades ago when it started with razorblades, and that sabotaged candy has never been a thing she got really defensive about it and countered that she had actually been the victim of a halloween razor blade attack and that's when I learned my cousin is a liar
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Jul 24, 2023 18:05
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teen witch posted:Holy poo poo one of the few times my mom showed concern for what her kid was consuming, it was when I wanted to rent the following game: I'm very disappointed that this isn't a game about gastropods.
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Jul 24, 2023 20:24
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Yeah I was. Mom took away my D&D stuff and destroyed it by soaking it in water and tearing it up. She did this poo poo all the time -- with my records, books, crafts. She'd steal my school papers and notes and drawings and scour all of it for suspicious hidden satanic clues which she'd circle with a red pen. My mom was also loving insane and the Christian fundie psychos on TV in that era made her so much worse. Fuuuuck Christianity, it's a mill to drive people mad and ruin families.
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Jul 24, 2023 20:34
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When I was in junior high our group of friends got into dice and paper role-playing games. Some parents went absolutely ballistic when they found out, and after submitting our Twilight 2000 and Lord of the Rings books for vetting they were OK'd, but Dungeons & Dragons was absolutely off the limits with the warning that "if your group starts to play that you are no longer allowed to participate". The only other time my parents actually cared enough about satanic panic-stuff was when I got a copy of Dungeon Keeper, with the slogan "evil is good" printed on the CD case. That took some explaining and demonstrating that "see I am just building an adventure site for the good guys".
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Jul 24, 2023 20:35
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Grew up Catholic so, no. Hail Satan
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Jul 24, 2023 21:02
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My parents did check my Halloween candy but it was mostly for torn wrappers, and also an excuse for Dad to take the stuff he wanted. Honestly Dad probably lived through a lot of Satanic Panic being a fan of Ozzy, Metallica, and other maligned musicians, and I think he and grandma had both left Protestantism by the time I was born, so he tempered a lot of my upbringing - I was still raised Catholic by Mom but I wasn't immersed in the truly batshit beliefs about Satan being in every book, song, and videogame. Even the handpuppet thing was just a rare one-off incident and most of the time it was just warning me about strangers casting hexes on me if I don't wear jewelry as protection. I blame this one on conquistadors loving up every country they touched thoughA Fancy Hat posted:Our local police department offered to do that. This past year they brought that whole thing back, but this time they could check your kids candy for fentanyl. But how could they do that if a cop goes into a coma if they get within 5 miles of fentanyl?
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Jul 24, 2023 21:27
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When I was a little kid in the 80's the Procter and Gamble logo was supposedly a satanic symbol lol
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Jul 24, 2023 22:04
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I vaguely remember at some point some biblical scholars came out and said they had like blown some dust of of some ancient text and it turned out they had been interpreting the passage wrong all this time and the Number of the Beast was not actually 666 but 616 or something. But nobody cared, Maiden already wrote the song.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:11
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My public elementary school banned anything Halloween-related one year because the principal was into that poo poo. The news interviewed parents outside of the building who talked about being afraid that their kids would get sacrificed.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:14
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My parents definitely thought Mazes and Monsters was a documentary, too.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:16
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Kinda feel like I gotta go call my mom and thank her, profusely, for not putting me through that.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:20
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Let the KIDS make jak-o-lanterns in peace.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:21
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teen witch posted:Kinda feel like I gotta go call my mom and thank her, profusely, for not putting me through that. Same. My parents were awesome. She really taught me to dilute fact from fiction.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:24
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I had a graphic arts class in high school where we used the school print shop to make business cards and stationery pads and stuff. The teacher was a jock dickhead type who was preoccupied with finding hidden satanic or sex and drug references in things. So if you wanted to print something with say a rock band logo he wasn’t familiar with he would come down on it because it had to be devil worship. He hated me because I used to invent symbols and secret alphabets and stuff and I refused to tell him what any of it meant (usually nothing). It drove him crazy.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:24
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Treecko posted:Same. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it’s due to my mother and the fond memories I have of that time of year. She always went out of her way to make holidays so special, especially Halloween. Every year she texts me when she’s watching It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (and nothing makes me more homesick than that text). I literally have a Halloween themed tattoo sleeve because of those fond, comforting memories. It’s something I realize now I was really fortunate to have, and it shaped who I am now. I was a very anxious child and being fed this insane bullshit nonstop would have done a loving number on me. I hope some of you celebrate Halloween twice as hard or play D&D all the time or blast Iron Maiden, whatever, just loving please enjoy things that you had the right to enjoy back then without all this crazy bullshit panic. E: Hail Satan
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PureEvil6_13 posted:When I was a little kid in the 80's the Procter and Gamble logo was supposedly a satanic symbol lol I posted about this a few pages back and this was an Amway marketing ploy to convince their "Independent Business Owners" why they shouldn't just buy similar products for far cheaper.
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Jul 25, 2023 00:03
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I'm disappointed. I grew up in a very rural, very evangelical area and we didn't have any Satanic panic. Maybe we were too rural and they didn't know to panic. Some of my classmates were barred from watching The Simpsons because Bart corrupted children and Beavis & Butthead. My parents were pretty religious - though not Southern Baptist - but absolutely did not care what I was into. We watched the earliest years of The Simpsons as a family.
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Jul 25, 2023 07:20
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I was old enough to be aware of it and know it was very deeply dumb. Like, I played D&D, and knew firsthand it was a doorway to nerddom, not Satan. Although playing D&D on drugs was pretty fun.
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Jul 25, 2023 07:56
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My mom's friend tried to convince her that she should burn my cabbage patch kid because they put demons in them in the factory. This was an actual adult woman with children of her own.
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teen witch posted:I mean There was a JW family in my neighbourhood when I was growing up and they never let their kids go to school on a Friday because the world was going to end on a Friday but they didn't know which one.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:I hate the internet but growing up in some podunk rear end Southern town before the internet must have been so loving awful that I can barely even imagine it. Don’t forget about Midwest podunk towns. And not quite podunk towns. Seriously, stupid Christian sects who believe in the devil and witchcraft were all over the place in the US during my childhood. When I was 13 or 14, my mom was nice enough to put me in a sewing class. I liked sewing and I still remember stuff that teacher taught me, which is not the case with sewing classes I took in school. Anyway, one of the other girls, the only one my age, in the sewing class apparently had parents that were part of the creepy Christian movement. I asked her if she had seen Aladdin, and she told me that she’s not allowed to watch Disney movies because magic is witchcraft. I said,”But, magic isn’t real.” She said, all put-upon,”Yeah, I know. But my parents think Disney encourages devil worship. I liked Beauty and the Beast. My parents don’t know that I watched that at my friend’s house.” I’ve forgotten her name, but she wore leopard print leggings which seemed super rock and roll for being raised by parents that stupid and I hope she remained as awesome when she grew up-just being super nice, but not buying into any of the stupid she was raised around or encountered in the future.
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Ralph Hurley posted:I vaguely remember at some point some biblical scholars came out and said they had like blown some dust of of some ancient text and it turned out they had been interpreting the passage wrong all this time and the Number of the Beast was not actually 666 but 616 or something. But nobody cared, Maiden already wrote the song. This is sort of true. 666 is the alpha-numeric code for the name Nero when transliterated from Greek to Hebrew. 616 is the code for the same name when transliterated from Latin to Hebrew. Both numbers appear in ancient copies of Revelations and is one of the ways that biblical scholars know that Revelations is about the Roman Empire and not about American Evangelicals getting teleported to heaven.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll never get why believe this stupid poo poo and get so scared about a heart shaped piece of plastic and some cardboard. That’s just what a devil-possessed dad would say.
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I managed to miss any sort of direct Satanic Panic but a lot of stuff like Pokemon, Digimon, Oddbodz (trading cards of gross characters) got banned at school for gambling or promoting violence so I have to wonder if they were just being more subtle in a highly educated and fairly irreligious area. Our principal apparently got in trouble for sneaking religious poo poo into the curriculum they weren't supposed to. Australia eh?maybealabia posted:I wouldn't have been hit, but I would definitely have been in trouble for saying dump in that context My parents love to tell the tale of us going to a family friends place for a bbq and being all polite and respectful greeting the adults then politely excusing myself to go out into the street to join my friend... and then a minute after I was out of sight them all clearly hearing 8 year old me screeching from off in the distance "Oi Westo where the gently caress are you?!" A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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Oh so this happened to other people too? Nobody got in trouble for it afaik but the public school I went to from kindergarten to 3rd grade had numerous teachers who Jesus'd everything up. Like all the kids in our class would have a class with the guidance counselor once a week where she'd teach us stuff about how we should tell the teachers if our parents beat or touch us, and that we shouldn't do drugs, and she would always put some kinda religious spin in there.
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Jul 25, 2023 11:00
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Cards got banned in schools because we were all having too much fun and not paying attention to the schoolwork. Some kids made dumb trades and thier parents got all worked up and called the schools DEMANDING TO KNOW WHY THIER PRECIOUS CHILD DOESNT KNOW THE MULTIPLICATION CHART.
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teen witch posted:I mean Hah, I was that pariah who had to leave my classroom and go sit on a bench outside of the principal's office any time there was a birthday or Christmas decorations or whatever. Yeah, making a 7 year old sit on a bench reading a book instead of eating cake and having fun with friends is sure a fantastic motivator to remain in that religion. Didn't help that kids are mean and made fun of me for it as well
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emSparkly posted:Oh so this happened to other people too? Nobody got in trouble for it afaik but the public school I went to from kindergarten to 3rd grade had numerous teachers who Jesus'd everything up. Like all the kids in our class would have a class with the guidance counselor once a week where she'd teach us stuff about how we should tell the teachers if our parents beat or touch us, and that we shouldn't do drugs, and she would always put some kinda religious spin in there. We got religious instruction classes, which were/are kosher even in public schools here, but were uh. Supposed to be even handed and not just a youth minister from one denomination talking bout Jesus. My parents got me exempted, which lead me to spend the lesson in the staff office helping out and getting slipped jellybeans and soda by the old office ladies. But I found out later some other kids parents got mad enough to go to the education dept and kept kicking up stinks at PTA (funnily enough according to my parents the people who were leading this were a couple of Catholic parents cause they really disliked their kid bringing back a pamphlet from some protestant church) and got the classes cancelled wholesale and the principal retired that year.
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As a kid I was at a friend's house playing "Zelda". He picked up the "Red Ring", which turns your character's shirt red (very cool). He started screaming "I AM THE DEVIL! I AM THE DEVIL!" over and over until his Mom came in and yelled at him (very funny). I think this was more "Annoying Kid Panic" than "Satanic Panic" though.
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That reminds me of the Red Dye 40 controversy and how some kids couldn’t have red candy because somehow hyper???? Red Dye 40 and MSG, the latter being insane racist hysteria.
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My dad made me play D&D with him when I was like 11 or 12 maybe, and kept handing me fantasy / scifi / horror novels he liked that were theoretically above my reading level (Lovecraft is suitable reading for 12-year-olds,right? Right?), and while I do practice pagan witchcraft I'm pretty sure it's not related to that. I my best friend when I was 13 had parents who were weird churchy types and while he was allowed to play video games and Pokémon and such, he did come in one day with some lame magazine that had an article about how D&D was actually Satanic. It had a rad colour drawing of a big scary horned and tentacled demon hiding behind a yellow smiley face mask and the two of us definitely spent an entire lunch break making fun of it. I wish Satanists were even a tiny fraction as cool as the ones that live in American evangelical Christians' imaginations and like horror movies and poo poo, but regrettably IRL Satanists are all a bunch of pussies with a hard-on for Ayn Rand.
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Vampire Panties posted:I had expressed a passing interest in D&D, mostly because of the cartoon but also some kids older brothers played it. My narcissistic aunt made me give several long-winded explanations/apologies on how I was wrong, not just at the time but over the years. I was maybe six? forced to defend vancian magic for a game I had never played nor seen. (Sure as gently caress didnt know the term vancian magic). Because my naunt is just as crazy as she is evil, then she bought me some 80s christian science fiction to infecting future robot cops with schizophrenia could make a cool scifi story.
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teen witch posted:Red Dye 40 and MSG, the latter being insane racist hysteria. Holy gently caress this just awakened something deep in my past about my mother convincing me I was "allergic" to MSG. The Asia-phobia suddenly makes all sorts of sense.
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Mad Hamish posted:I wish Satanists were even a tiny fraction as cool as the ones that live in American evangelical Christians' imaginations and like horror movies and poo poo, but regrettably IRL Satanists are all a bunch of pussies with a hard-on for Ayn Rand. We are, we just don’t hang with LaVeyian types. You’re looking for more unaffiliated Satanists or something like The Satanic Temple.
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teen witch posted:We are, we just don’t hang with LaVeyian types. You’re looking for more unaffiliated Satanists or something like The Satanic Temple. The Satanic Temple is great. The church of satan is likely what's complained about. Nobody cares about them, though. E: admittedly, it is a confusing distinction Grey Cat fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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I was born in the early 70s. When I was probably 10 or so someone gave me Destroyer by KISS. Not long after I learned what KISS stood for and used the record as a frisbee. Also my cousin's mom threw out all his D&D stuff.
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