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[Nonfiction] [Review] Dangerous Games by Joseph P. Laycock AKA The Satanic Panic or Arguing with Morons
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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfram stout" data-source="post: 8608251" data-attributes="member: 6947995"><p>I may have to grab and read this one. I was the son of a pastor in the US South of what would be called an evangelical church (although we didn't use that term back then). What is interesting to me as in the early 70s this church was very strict but had no problem with Halloween. We had massive parties, where even the adults dressed up. By the end of the 70s (about 2 years after we left this church) they were the very typical evangelical church fully invested in the Satanic Panic. No Halloween, No D&D, and due to some really horrible books called "Trouble in the Toybox" (I think this came out in the 80s). every toy and cartoon was Evil.</p><p></p><p>And something I don't see mentioned too often now, is that the Satanic Panic had different modes. There was the Occult Warnings (beware the witches and wizards) but there was also attacks against "The New Age". The New Age stuff was the psionics of the Satanic Panic (crystals, astrology, meditation). It got a lot of play because it was generally more visible than occultist stuff back then.</p><p></p><p>But I did know a few very conservative church youth groups that actually embraced DragonRaid. I think those groups had Youth Ministers that were closet D&D players trying to survive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wolfram stout, post: 8608251, member: 6947995"] I may have to grab and read this one. I was the son of a pastor in the US South of what would be called an evangelical church (although we didn't use that term back then). What is interesting to me as in the early 70s this church was very strict but had no problem with Halloween. We had massive parties, where even the adults dressed up. By the end of the 70s (about 2 years after we left this church) they were the very typical evangelical church fully invested in the Satanic Panic. No Halloween, No D&D, and due to some really horrible books called "Trouble in the Toybox" (I think this came out in the 80s). every toy and cartoon was Evil. And something I don't see mentioned too often now, is that the Satanic Panic had different modes. There was the Occult Warnings (beware the witches and wizards) but there was also attacks against "The New Age". The New Age stuff was the psionics of the Satanic Panic (crystals, astrology, meditation). It got a lot of play because it was generally more visible than occultist stuff back then. But I did know a few very conservative church youth groups that actually embraced DragonRaid. I think those groups had Youth Ministers that were closet D&D players trying to survive. [/QUOTE]
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