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"Satanic Panic" has been a classic deflection mechanism ever since Michael Aquino helped jump start it by going on Oprah's show in the 80s dressed like a goofy vampire. Just a classic fallacy of composition, where if any concerns over Satanism were proven to be overwrought or misplaced, well, they all must be.

Whether black magic actually works or not, there is overwhelming evidence that many elites believe it does and act accordingly.

I'll refrain from detailing the thread too much by delving into the compromised nature of Wikipedia, which, for example, deleted its article on Aquino and redirected it to "Temple of Set."

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There's also ample historical evidence that even more people are willing to believe the most ludicrous things said about other people without any proof whatsoever, so long as Satanism/demonology and/or sex are sprinkled into the tale.

"Satanic panic" wasn't a "deflection mechanism". It's the reality that the vast majority of the things people were worrying about existed only in their heads. Dark, demonic forces have better things to do with their time than hang out in your toaster or mess about with angsty pimple-faced teens when there's desperate college graduates with a lifetime of student loan debt and "promising futures" practically falling from the sky. Most satanists (just like most non-satanists) have never even played D&D.

Thing is, all those "concerns" proved to be bullshit, created by a certain church to cover its own crimes, such as rampant pedophilia and promotion of numerous social pathologies. Remember when Vatican granted diplomatic immunity to a pedophile to protect him from law enforcement? That's the people who invented the satanic panic.

One of the children Michael Aquino abused called him out to her parents when she spotted him at a random place in San Francisco, and provided a description of the interior of his house which matched what police found when they went to investigate. Many of the children at the Presidio daycare had physical evidence of abuse, including venereal disease.

It's a single case, compared to hundreds of thousands victims of Catholic Church. It's also a single case, as opposed to an organised operation throughout the entire Church hierarchy, all the way to the very top at the Vatican.

Ok, so you admit that not all the concerns turned out to be bullshit created by the Catholic Church, as you originally claimed.

All of them turned out to be bullshit, but we now also know that those “concerned” were child groomers themselves.

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