Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Now that I think more of it outside the shower, it’s probably “stereotypical religious nutjobs of the 20th century”.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Now that I think more of it outside the shower, it’s probably “stereotypical religious nutjobs of the 20th century”.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Read the book The Demon Haunted World, or at least the parts about satanic panic and charlatans. I really miss Carl Sagan.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 months ago
My favorite part of the satanic panic was when sometime in the eighties, our local preacher dropped by our house (we were not church goers) and saw a mangled, black candle on our kitchen table. We’d had a power outage recently, and Internet-less, kid-me loved to heat up paper clips over the flames and use them to etch the wax. Totally innocent of any dastardly doings aside from slightly mischievous me. He left in a bit of a hurry and sent along some hilarious VHS tapes decrying the evils of this and that. Particularly Dungeons and Dragons. Which was how I discovered Dungeons and Dragons and how awesome it is.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s hilarious! I remember people saying that D&D led to kids stealing stoplights, and wondering how on earth that had anything to do with satan. I also remember Frank Peretti books (This Present Darkness), and Screwtape Letters.
TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn’t Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t quite remember, but there’s always been this little vague memory in the back of my mind that I was taught to consider Carl Sagan as evil.
Oh seventies crazy religious upbringing. What nonsense won’t you spew?
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same. When I finally read The Demon Haunted World 20 years after it came out I was so angry at my Focus On the Family “Carl Sagan is a passive satanist” parents for telling me not to read it when it came out.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s the TLDR?