Alabama Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville had a stark warning for the approximately 100 Utah GOP delegates who crowded into a Bluffdale warehouse to hear him speak on Friday afternoon: Malevolent supernatural forces are working to undermine America.
Dude’s 30 years late to the party… Satanic cults ceased to be our culture’s preferred boogeyman back in the mid 90s
For a hot sec, I was like “the mid 90s weren’t 30 years ago”.
Death is just around the corner for me.
“Death is just around the corner for me”
Relax… It’s safe bet that you’ll survive longer than Armie Hammer’s chances for a career revival
40 years. The Satanic Panic was strongest in the 80s. Dungeons and Dragons, oooohhh, oh no. Motley Crue said Shout at the Devil! Daycare employees are undoubtedly sacrificing horses and making children participate.
See: Michelle Remembers
Anyway, ok Tommy. I can’t take you seriously because of your name. See the Friendly Atheist blog to learn how far off these jokers are from understanding anything at all. Support the Freedom From Religion foundation and the Satanic Temple.
Yep, you hit the high points. The McMartin daycare thing was insane.
And I am sorry to report that I did in fact read Michelle Remembers whenever it came out; I had finally forgotten it Thank You Very Fucking Much lol. Of all the lurid unworthy trash I have read in my life, that was likely the unworthiest.
https://youtu.be/lmN1Op8ygno?si=NFh2t_2WMtARK1O5 We may be in the midst of an occultism resurgence, both in popular media and everyday life
Go back and watch evening news magazines like 20/20 and A Current Affair that were filmed in the early 90s. Both The Glitterati and the public at large were still very much convinced that satanic cults were lurking around every corner. '95-'96 was the year we finally lost interest in this particular moral panic, and would soon move onto sweating the tidal wave of teen superpredators that James Fox and some more folks in the humanities department(The same demographic that concocted the notion of repressed memory theory, helped fuel Satanic Panic) astutely foresaw coming
I thought it was the 80s, with the backmasking/D&D/Judas Priest bullshit?
Jesus, I’m so old all the screaming/arm flapping/Chicken Little satanic panics are starting to blend.
EDITED TO ADD: I should have read the other comments first, lol.
The origins of SP can arguably be traced back to the late 1960s, when movies like Rosemary’s Baby jettisoned Satanism from a niche hobby and into mainstream attention. But yeah… It definitely was at it’s strongest during The 80s
What if I said it was a Migrant Cult Caravan?
That’s so four years ago…
What have we got that’s new?
Umm… communists?
Satanic panics will be back, and in greater numbers.