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.
  • MechaJutaro@lemmy.world
    371·
    6 months ago

    Dude’s 30 years late to the party… Satanic cults ceased to be our culture’s preferred boogeyman back in the mid 90s

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      261·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • MechaJutaro@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        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

      • MechaJutaro@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        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

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
      31·
      6 months ago

      For a hot sec, I was like “the mid 90s weren’t 30 years ago”.

      Death is just around the corner for me.

      • MechaJutaro@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        “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