For those of you who do not know about the "Satanic panic" that spread from the early 80s to the mid 90s please read the following links and the links within it, it is a fascinating read and makes you think.
SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (SRA)
Christian propaganda is nothing new, its been going on for 100s of years, but in the early 1980s for around 10 years, religious fundamentalists where writing books, and appearing on talk shows trying to convince the world (mainly America), about a huge satanic abuse problem, they spread out right lies half truths, and made up stories of horrific child abuse, that were so horrific for those involved that many oppressed the memories and forgot about it, and only remembered it under hypnotherapy AKA "recovered memory therapy"
They tried to convince anyone that would listen, that there where up to a million Satanists through out America from bus drivers to judges, from police men to Dr's, they claimed that up to 60,000 satanic murders where happening each year in America alone, if this where the case how come there is no evidence of it, and how come it doesn’t fit in with the missing persons statistics?
Many of the people that had the recovered memory therapy where proven to be making up the stories. One example is where someone told of how she had a half formed foetus taken out of her when she was a teenager, and was made to watch it been mutilated, later tests proved that she had never been pregnant in her life.
The Chat show host GERALDO RIVERA did shows on the subject convinced that it was going on, and because so many people in America watched it and believed it, a huge number of arrests followed, where children had seen the show and accused friends and family of satanic child abuse, the mass-hysteria continued.
Soon the so called Satanic abuse was proven to be fake, and propaganda, not just atheists, but pagans and Christians too also investigated the claims of a secret satanic abuse problem in America, all came to the conclusion that it was all sensationalism fantasy and lies.
Geraldo later apologised publicly for all the harm he had done to America, and because of all the innocent people who went to jail because of his shows
Here is what he said about his contributing to the 80s satanic panic.
"I want to announce publicly that as a firm believer of the 'Believe The Children' movement of the 1980's, that started with the McMartin trials in CA, but NOW I am convinced that I was terribly wrong... and many innocent people were convicted and went to prison as a result....AND I am equally positive [that the] 'Repressed Memory Therapy Movement' is also a bunch of CRAP..."
All the best
Faeden