Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.

[paulpablo]

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• The devil worshipping Satanism which has nothing to do with Atheism. These people believe in everything you believe but they worship the devil instead of god. Their symbol is a pentagram like this:

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Note it has two tops pointing up. It symbolizes a goat which according to those Satanists is the face of the devil.
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Uhm... Can you provide a single example of such a "devil worshiping satanist" congregation? Or any other references? Because I think that's all b*llocks - these people don't exist... Unless you count teenagers listening to death-metal and trying to upset their parents. Or the odd mentally ill person.

One thing I've heard about recently directly related to Satanism is the stories of satanic panic.  There's a very recent but not very well known story of satanic paedophile cults in England.

Basically a husband and wife split up on bad terms, then the wife with her new boyfriend coached her children into claiming that the children's biological father, along with Mcdonalds, starbucks, the social services, the church, the school and a local shoe shop were all involved in satanic paedophile rituals, killing babies, roasting them, making shoes out of their skin, having full days of school dedicated to sex and so on.  They broadcast these claims on youtube videos, but you can clearly hear the adults in the background encouraging the kids to make the claims.

There's been no evidence that any of this is true and the children actually took back all the claims they were coached to make in a properly conducted police interview, they also admitted it was their mothers new boyfriend who gave them soup with marijuana in and hurt them if they didn't keep up with the satanic claims.

There are people who believe all these satanic claims though as stupid as they may sound, the school received threats from people saying stuff on the phone like "Oh you think it's funny to eat babies do you?"

The story about it is here http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-51/

And if you search youtube for the name Ella Draper there's videos on there where some people believe her claims still.  Most of those people also believe in Jewish conspiracies and other things though.