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name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been
committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that
statement, but few can argue with it.
Many of those alleging satanic abuse describe grotesque orgiastic
rituals in which infants are murdered and eaten. Such claims have
been made about reviled groups by their detractors throughout
European history, including the Cataline conspirators in Rome,
the Passover 'blood libel' against the Jews, and the Knights
Templar as they were being dismantled in fourteenth-century
France. Ironically, reports of cannibalistic infanticide and incestuous
orgies were among the particulars used by Roman authorities
to persecute the early Christians. After all, Jesus himself is quoted
as saying (John vi, 53) 'Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,
and drink his blood, ye have no life in you'. Although the next line
makes it clear Jesus is talking about eating his own flesh and
drinking his own blood, unsympathetic critics might have misunderstood
the Greek 'Son of man' to mean 'child' or 'infant'.
Tertullian and other early Church fathers defended themselves
against these grotesque accusations as best they could.
Today, the lack of corresponding numbers of lost infants and
young children in police files is explained by the claim that all over
the world babies are being bred for this purpose, surely reminiscent
of abductee claims that alien/human breeding experiments
are rampant. Also similar to the alien abduction paradigm, satanic
cult abuse is said to pass down from generation to generation in
certain families. To the best of my knowledge, as in the alien
abduction paradigm, no physical evidence has ever been offered
in a court of law to support such claims. Their emotional power,
though, is evident. The mere possibility that such things are going
on rouses us mammals to action. When we give credence to
satanic ritual, we also raise the social status of those who warn us
of the supposed danger.
Consider these five cases: (1) Myra Obasi, a Louisiana schoolteacher,
was - she and her sisters believed after consultation with
a hoodoo practitioner - possessed by demons. Her nephew's
nightmares were part of the evidence. So they left for Dallas,
abandoned their five children, and the sisters then gouged out Ms
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