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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankly, I have never seen any evidence (and I've looked at lots) that's convinced me even a single "Satanic cult" has existed anywhere, ever.
coughScientologycough
Actually, I knew of some Satanic cult-type stuff in my hometown. Not the "listens to The Quiet Riot and The Led Zeppelin instead of the music of JESUS" Satanism the goofy religious types would use to scare up donat, er, the medi, er, the faithful.
We're talking a cross between skinheads and Satanists.
coughScientologycough
Xenu =! Satan
Half the stuff I'm seen Christian churches do reviles me more than what Satanists are reputed to do.
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Huh. My insurance agency decided to reinstate my renter's insurance policy out of the goodness of their heart, without me having to ask them to do so.
Of course, they want to charge me $210.60 to do so, and the property they are looking to insure is the apartment I lived in in Maine 8 years ago.
I believe the voice mail I left them may have been a little bit on the angry side.
We're talking a cross between skinheads and Satanists.
I'd be curious to know more of the details about this. This is exactly the kind of group I see touted by the media/churches/etc as the Satanic cult bogeyman we're supposed to be afraid of.
Hell, prison skinhead gangs are openly Satanist, too. I guess that strikes me as more of a trapping than a central motivator, I guess, which is why I find their claim of Satanism so dubious. It's like they adopted it just to scare the straights.
This is exactly the kind of group I see touted by the media/churches/etc as the Satanic cult bogeyman we're supposed to be afraid of.
Well, in the mainstream media, "Satanic" is used as a blanket term for "evil" (or as a synonym/shortcut for "serial rapist with black candles in his desk drawer") rather than as meaning "member of the Church of Satan."
ND, I am rewatching High Fidelity for the first time since the theaters. It disturbs me that you are on my tv right now. getoff GetOff GETOFF!
How am I on your screen? Which character?
WHO AM I?!?
Well, in the mainstream media, "Satanic" is used as a blanket term for "evil" (or as a synonym/shortcut for "serial rapist with black candles in his desk drawer") rather than as meaning "member of the Church of Satan."
Oh, I get that. I think that's part of what I'm semi-ranting about -- that the "Satanic" cults and murderers people talk about really are not (even when they keep black candles in a drawer). That's it's a word used specifically and deliberately to evoke a non-existant bogeyman. In fact, if any member of the press is using the term to mean "member of the Church of Satan," than they really need to be kicked in the head repeatedly by an army of fact-checkers.
Oh, I get that. I think that's part of what I'm semi-ranting about -- that the "Satanic" cults and murderers people talk about really are not (even when they keep black candles in a drawer). That's it's a word used specifically and deliberately to evoke a non-existant bogeyman.
Of course. It's why I get techy when people refer to "witches" as "Satanic" when they're talking about Wiccans. Dude, it's not 1692 and we're not in Salem Village.
Sick murderers are sick murderers--whether they profess to serve Satan or not. It doesn't make them Satanists any more than it makes me one.