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re: Satanic Panic in the 80’s

Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:08 pm to
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:08 pm to
You know what happens when you play New Kids On The Block backwards?































It sounds better...
Posted by furrydogs
USA
Member since Oct 2007
471 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:09 pm to
Along these lines, anyone remember a road in lower Algiers called Grunge Road or something like that and had satanic worshippers hanging out? I remember driving down that gravel road one Saturday night and we chickened out about halfway down it.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77199 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:11 pm to
I was a teenager. It’s been overblown. There was some pushback against some of the artists at the time like Ozzy, Motley Crue etc. The serial killer in LA Ramirez fed into it when he said he was inspired by AC/DC’s music. Fundamentalist groups like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and Tipper Gore’s PMRC came out hard against it but as for the average American’s fear it has been overblown by the media.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
70794 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:11 pm to
If you weren't afraid of Satan during the '80s, then you were a little bitch.
Posted by Pechon
unperson
Member since Oct 2011
7748 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:11 pm to
My grandmother used to say people who play D&D are going straight to hell. I don't think she ever knew what the hell it was. She also said Vatican II was a mistake and till her death refused to call Brazil nuts by their proper name.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
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194883 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:12 pm to
i know a guy
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
297596 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:16 pm to
I lived in the bible belt and didn't know much about it. I know there was the backmasking thing but don't remember a lot after that.

It just made us listen to the lyrics a lot closer out of curiosity. As usual stuff like that backfires.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
62766 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:19 pm to
I knew a fellow who swore Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist because his name was Ronald Wilson Reagan...all have six letters so "666." I (and others) used to laugh at him and call him crazy.

Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:19 pm to
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She also said Vatican II was a mistake and till her death refused to call Brazil nuts by their proper name.


Your grandma from the grave:

Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
297596 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:23 pm to
quote:

but as for the average American’s fear it has been overblown by the media.

Yeah I always felt it was over sensationalized. I know youth pastors would hand out tracts in front of concert lines and stuff, but I dont remember any hardcore effort.

Of course every high school kid swore they knew a field somewhere that devil worshippers or the KKK once used for rituals. That was traditional teen lore.
Posted by Dawgholio
Bugtussle
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:26 pm to
AC/DC
Antichrist Devil’s Child
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:50 pm to
Yes. I remember sitting in a large auditorium at Barksdale AFB while a female "expert" in the occult repeatedly (and badly) mispronounced the word "Santeria." What the USAF thought their role in battling the occult might be is a question that is only more bewildering in hindsight, but I feel certain that same woman is now lecturing young airmen about the threat of white supremacist incel neckbeards.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21375 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:55 pm to
EXCLUSIVE: Babies in black dresses abused while laying in a Pentagram, drinking cat's blood and Satanic writings on church walls: The twisted confessions of the pedophile pastor from Louisiana who inspired 'True Detective'

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Pastor Louis Lamonica Jr. of Hosanna Church, Hammond, Louisiana, confessed to being the head of a Satanic ring in 2005. At the time police feared up to 25 children could have fallen victim
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:56 pm to
I always considered the Hosanna Church thing to be the bookend at the conclusion of the Satanic Panic. Most if not all of the claims initially made about that place turned out to be BS.
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
15300 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:01 pm to
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Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?


Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21375 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:02 pm to
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Most if not all of the claims initially made about that place turned out to be BS.


Well, the pastor and his family sure plead guilty to abuse and confessed to satanic ritual practices. So I think it substantiates rather than invalidates the Satanic Panic.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49479 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:03 pm to
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so I have a question for those who were around during the whole decade and can remember it. I’ve heard on multiple occasions that there was a widespread “Satanic Panic” during that era, where people feared that there were Satanic cults everywhere and it could very well be your next door neighbor who was a secret Satanist.


..I was born into it, molded by it.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
29309 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:13 pm to
The q-tards at my work believe all leftist celebrities are Satan worshippers and are involved in occult satanic ceremonies.
Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
Member since Dec 2012
17142 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:18 pm to
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Lakeboy7
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Check the Politics board, those guys were in their 40s and 50s in the 80s.


It’s funny how you generalize and stereotype, but are so often wrong on a massive level.
Posted by Skervix
Member since Aug 2018
219 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 6:18 pm to
Geraldo Riveira had an episode on his talk show about it. I remember all of us kids were pretty scared. The stories were all the same... animals being sacrificed and pentagrams spray-painted everywhere. There was a supposed list of people who were to be killed in the name of Satan, and it was always somebody you knew. LOL. It really was stupid, but parents really did pull their kids out of school out of the fear. I'm 45 now. I was in 5th or 6th grade at this time. I was heavy into Motley Crue "Shout at the Devil" and hafta admit I didn't sleep too easy for a bit there. My church really fed into it.
A simple Google search will tell you all about it.
This post was edited on 11/23/22 at 6:23 pm
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