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AKA Pseudonym posted:I was a kid in the 80s during the height of this stuff and honestly I never really got the sense that adults were taking it very seriously. Like everybody seemed worried that pop culture was too nihilistic or anti-social but stuff like back-masking seemed like it was a big joke to most people. Growing up Southern Baptist in Texas, my grandmother 100% believed that Satan and demons were real and that if you brought anything associated with fantasy, spiritualism, or the occult within the walls of her house that meant demons were invited in. My mother and father were kind of in-between, not necessarily believing it 100% literally but also not dismissing it as much as they should have. They were also briefly Sunday School teachers, which happened to coincide with the SBC promotion of the video by con artists Gary Greenwald and Phil Phillips: Deception of a Generation (and Phil Phillips's book Turmoil in the Toybox). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhZrpbY4DqQ Because of the content of that book and video, my parents decided to throw away the majority of me and my brother's toys. (I think the only things that didn't get thrown out were the GI Joes and Legos.) It is difficult to truly convey just how deeply stupid parents were back in the 80s.
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chefscientist posted:Born 83 raised in evangelical churches So Cal so felt it petty hard. Mixed right in with stranger danger. My mom is still worried about D&D and still thinks Satan is trying to destroy the country? In the late-90s and early-00s, some Wiccan groups started trying to shut down these "reformed Satanist"/"former witch"/etc hustlers by attending and recording their events. Then when they told some ridiculous STDH story about killing a baby or doing a blood sacrifice, they would call the police and report that the speaker had just publicly confessed to committing a murder. That seemed to get some of them to roll back their bullshit for a while.
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