Lessons from the 1980s Satanic Panic

It seems like fundamentalist Christians are trying to foment sAtaNic paNiC 2.0 (or 3.0 if you count the Puritans). There were large numbers of posts on Threads recently claiming that “hALLoweeN is sAtaNic”. There have also been rumblings about this from the MAGA crowd.

We don’t throw anyone under the bus

One thing we learned from the satanic panic in the late 1980s: we do not throw the Satanists under the bus.

We can point out many things:

Pagans & Wiccans don’t worship Satan, ...