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The Best of the Satanic Panic Genre

By Jennifer Emick, About.com

Sloppy scholarship, Satanic panic, and hilarious misconceptions. A rogue's gallery of the worst offenders in satanic rumor mongering and all around religious bigotry.

1. Halloween and Satanism

Hilarious piece of bad scholarship, rumor mongering, and hysterical conspiracy theory. Not to be taken seriously.
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2. Satan's High Priest

Yet another ex- Satanic High priest who converts to Christianity after years of torturing and murdering innocents. Full of lurid details, except when it might incriminate him- then, the details are very vague indeed.
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3. The Omega conspiracy

Demons, aliens, nephilim, oh my! Author attempts to tie together two genres (alien abduction and end times prophecy) with absurd and amusing results.
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4. Michelle Remembers

Tales of a childhood full of satanic abuse, child pornography, and torture. Michelle's family wasn't amused. After milking the "I was married to Satan" schtick, Michelle has now reinvented herself as a holocaust survivor. Thousands fell for this lurid tale of satanic fantasy.
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5. Ravaged by the New Age : Satan's Plan to Destroy Our Kids

Did you know that Satan uses smurfs, goddess worship, and the Space Program to steal our children's souls? Well, neither did I. This and other gems of paranoia stud this thigh slapper of lunatic conspiracy theories.

6. The Satan Seller

Another converted "Satanic High priest" (why do only the "High Priests" ever write books?), only this one is different- he got caught in the lie by a dogged team of Christian journalists. Did he repent? Naw, he just wrote another book. See below for the entertaining expose.
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7. Selling Satan

Mike Warnke rode a wave of infamy to become one of the most popular evangelical figures ever. This former Stanic High priest wrote lurid tales of human sacrifice and depravity- and all of it was a lie. The threads of Mike's fibs are steadily unraveled in this entertaining expose.
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