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   Rev. Onan Canobite, SubGenius (onan@dobbs.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:28:05 JST Rev. Onan Canobite, SubGenius

   Remember the Satanic Panic? That’s when people were put on trial for crimes that not only didn’t happen but which were impossible to happen.

   Some were exonerated, others were sentenced to prison. Some served time, some died in prison, some are there still.

   Remember, at the time, how effective logic and evidence were as counter-arguments?

   Remember, after it ended, how many of the people behind the Satanic Panic were held accountable?

   I sure remember.

   Don’t take facts to a faith fight.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:28:04 JST Sick Sun

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     @onan The children's testimony was lent credibility by significant child psychologist and child advocate support and in the 1990s there were many lawsuits against doctors for their "repressed memory" recovery, and the APA defended them. Insurance companies settled their cases because they were afraid they would lose but the APA wanted to fight. The concept took over a decade to get scientific consensus to declare it discredited.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:30:29 JST Sick Sun

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     • Sick Sun
     @onan There is a lot of false memory regarding this time period, people pretend they weren't participating, but at the time it felt like it was everybody. Regular news was reporting about it constantly, not just Christian nutjobs.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:33:26 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper @onan What's the pagan consensus on weirdos that adopt paganism to fulfill their transgression fetishes, like Tony Podesta.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:33:27 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @onan
     
     It's happening again. Just join any of the evangelical communities online, especially if they're `freedom` adjacent, and you'll see absolute hoards of these loons raving about it on a daily basis and pointing their fingers at the likes of us.
     
     Incidentally, it has nothing to do with "faith". Faith requires doubt. This is about "belief". In the words of Robert Anton Wilson, "The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental."
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:36:30 JST Sick Sun

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     • Terry Hendrix II 🏹
     @thendrix remember when they made a movie about child trafficking and it was true but the news was mad that the wrong people were interested in child trafficking and they hated those people so much that they minimized actual child trafficking
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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:36:31 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     • Sick Sun

     Now they have TikTok that has fun activities like “School Shooting Challenge” and corporate sponsors having trans activists selling beer to tweens. But they sleep on that until it starts affecting one party’s votes.

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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:37:40 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @onan
     
     Honestly, I don't know about that because I haven't been actively part of the local Pagan community for over a decade now. When it comes to pedophilia, those folks tend to be ejected with prejudice, and whenever possible followed up with legal action. Fucking with minors isn't acceptable by any standard. However on any other conceivable subject, there's unlikely to be a consensus, because Pagans as a rule are avowed free-thinkers and absolutely opposed to towing any party-line.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:15:40 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper @onan Even when the Satanic Panic was happening many people believed the Satan Worshipers were just transgression fetishists and didn't actually worship Satan.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:15:41 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @onan
     
     By definition if it has "Satanic" in the name, it's based on Abrahamic superstitions. No one else believes in that mythological character. It doesn't really matter if other people are buying into the narrative or not (eg. the MSM opportunistically trumpeting it for viewers/ratings), that's the fact of the matter. Even if it were a real thing, the people doing it would be followers of Abrahamic religion, not anything else.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:21:38 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper @onan mcmartin preschool accusations weren't true real but pedo rings are real transgression fetishists (my term) are real and playing around with child sex is the ultimate transgression. Q adrenochrome shit is stupid but groups have dialed back their cute little signals to each other because they've all been exposed, now they have to ridicule people noticing as being a low status activity.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:21:39 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @onan
     
     Btw, like most things, this isn't a new thing. It's been going on for nearly 2,000 years. The whole adrenochrome BS, and sudden frenzy about child/human trafficking (which has never stopped) is among the latest repeats. It's basically an urban legend like used to circulate in chain letters over the early internet around the same time period as the Satanic Panic. People are gullible ignorant and afraid, which creates a breeding ground for violent superstitions and genocidal tilting at windmills.
     
     https://youtu.be/NgmPQGWn8pI
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:27:10 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper @onan I am trying to explain why normal non-Christians fell into this hysteria as well as conservative Christians (and non-conservative Christians.) They didn't believe it was literal Satan worshipers they believed it was weirdo fucks. You're absolutely right though, indigenous european religions consistently got accused of being overt or covert Satanists all the time. I know that's still a thing you have to worry about but the modern incarnation is worried about very real, rich weirdos.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:27:11 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @onan
     
     Maybe. In my experience anyone who wasn't a Christian could have the finger pointed at them and labelled a Satanist, same as has been true from the inception of Christinanity as a belief system 2,000 years ago. It still happens today fairly routinely with basically no letup in the interim. Just wave after wave of unbelievably violent stupidity.
     
     Ultimately I don't really give a shit what excuse or nuance is concerned. The ideology behind it reliably produces this effect, and in my opinion is used opportunistically to keep society in a perpetual state of fear and ignorance so as to be more easily manipulated by those in power. Whether the associated violence is by design or just a side effect doesn't ultimately matter.
     
     Folks like myself can't practice our faith without constantly being afraid of these violent fuckwits showing up to our ceremonies with shotguns to murder the figments of their own paranoid imagination after being continuously indoctrinated from the pulpit of nearly ever church. The whole human species has been retarded in it's development by nearly 2 millennia because of this bullshit.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:32:24 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper this feels like "ignore a current thing that is happening because somebody else did it before" I can't speak to Catholic motivations to ignore the problem on a mass scale but every mainstream church is at least against fucking kids openly, it's worth dealing with real groups of people that do it because they like it.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:32:25 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @onan
     
     Yeah. There are doubtless a lot of pedophiles. And human trafficking is a real thing. In fact it's one of the ways in which Christian colonialists used to commit genocide against indigenous peoples. I personally know plenty of people who can speak to that from direct personal experience.
     
     Frankly if the evidence is to be believed, Abrahamites would be far better off pointing the finger in the mirror than ignorantly wagging it at anyone else. Their own churches are the culprits more often than not. But even so, I don't think it has much to do with religion per se. It has to do with greed and selfishness, which isn't even remotely associated with spirituality whatsoever. It's the furthest thing from it.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:35:16 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper whether they know it or not they're the same group, been around before Christianity. We call them Mystery Babylon. They are their own religion and have nothing to do with pagans in reality.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:35:17 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @onan
     
     They should take a closer look at their own religious organisations for starters. IMO, pointing the finger at everyone else is just a way to deflect from the truth. I'm more inclined to believe that all these elites suddenly adopting pseudo-pagan identities is actually a false flag to validate the fears of the ignorant herd and keep them dependent on the very people who are committing the crimes. It's the quintessence of what Christinanity has been doing for 2,000 years.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:43:00 JST Sick Sun

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     • ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡
     @toiletpaper I'm a minority opinion on this, but as a pagan you're also a minority viewpoint on the past so we're at an impasse on that issue. I won't tell you to believe in it, just telling you the pattern I see. One of their patterns is co-option, that is why sometimes they look like Satanists and sometimes they look like pagans.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:43:01 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun
     
     I don't know about that. Would love to see some Assyriology to back it up. But frankly I doubt there is any.