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Demon Deaths
Horrifying, true stories of devil worship and murder, as seen on Phil Donahue, Oprah and Geraldo. Satanic ritual and murder are all too real in today's society. Featuring documented testimony from actual cases, this book reveals the shocking crimes committed in the name of the devil.
202 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1991
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March 9, 2020
Just to give you a taste of what you might find if you decide to read this book:
"Thousands of children from preschool and daycare centers around the nation tell strikingly similar stories of animal an human sacrifices in connection with strange Devil-worshiping rituals." (p.192)
Wow, my daycare center was so boring.
Police work:
"Police conclude that the teenager was entranced by the occult." (p.193)
I would love to see that report.
As you might have guessed this is not a book based on any kind of research whatsoever but rather one long tabloid article in a book form. There is no bibliography, no endnotes, no footnotes. It looks like authors believed every story they read in the papers or any, story they were told. Instead of citing any credible sources they would rather write something like this "certain church scholars state..." (p.30) What church scholars? Where did they make such statements? Not to mention that some of the people they do mention are, let's say, peculiar. For example Bill Schnoebelen, pursuant to the book he is "a Christian evangelist who devotes his life to rescuing those trapped in Satan's snare" (p.20) What they forgot to mention that he was a witch (after 16 years he had found out that it was evil), then he was a Mormon, then a Mason and later a Freemason (sometimes he was a Mormon and a Freemason at the same time.) Ok we can forgive this one, due to the date this book was published, but in the year 2007 Bill Schnoebelen found out that he was a vampire as well (just google him, maybe by this year he had found out that he was a zombie or a non-binary donkey from parallel universe.) Another one is Mike Warnke "a former satanic High Priest"(p.186) - who as it turns out, was never involved in Satanism.
So either the writers were so gullible or (and I think this is more likely) they just wanted to make a quick buck. There is one problem though. Its main audience is evangelical Christians (no one else would take seriously their claims of children worshiping Baphomet at the recess) but they make a point that not all occult practices are bad. That you need a guide or a teacher before you can embark upon your journey of ceremonial magic, for example (p.159.) The idea is that you have to be supervised. I think evangelicals would be flabbergasted by this; although I'm not sure if they would dare to read a book with a pentagram on the cover.
Why two stars then? Well, I found chapters on president assassinations, Charles Manson and Mexican cult entertaining, but of course I would look for reliable sources to learn more about those topics.
P.S. Couldn't help myself. There is this a passage about goals one satanic group had set to achieve in 1999. "Indoctrinate young people by infiltrating boy's/girls' clubs; by infiltrating schools, having prayers removed, encouraging teachers to discuss sex, drugs, and moral freedom; by promoting rebellion against parents and all authority figures" (pp.191-192.) Don't fret sisters and brothers of the dark. Servants of the radical left have accomplished all of it and didn't stop there. Now, you would be hard-pressed to find boy's/girls' clubs - according to this secret society, there is limitless number of genders and so it will be very tiring to infiltrate all those clubs, not to mention memorizing all those preferred pronouns.
"Thousands of children from preschool and daycare centers around the nation tell strikingly similar stories of animal an human sacrifices in connection with strange Devil-worshiping rituals." (p.192)
Wow, my daycare center was so boring.
Police work:
"Police conclude that the teenager was entranced by the occult." (p.193)
I would love to see that report.
As you might have guessed this is not a book based on any kind of research whatsoever but rather one long tabloid article in a book form. There is no bibliography, no endnotes, no footnotes. It looks like authors believed every story they read in the papers or any, story they were told. Instead of citing any credible sources they would rather write something like this "certain church scholars state..." (p.30) What church scholars? Where did they make such statements? Not to mention that some of the people they do mention are, let's say, peculiar. For example Bill Schnoebelen, pursuant to the book he is "a Christian evangelist who devotes his life to rescuing those trapped in Satan's snare" (p.20) What they forgot to mention that he was a witch (after 16 years he had found out that it was evil), then he was a Mormon, then a Mason and later a Freemason (sometimes he was a Mormon and a Freemason at the same time.) Ok we can forgive this one, due to the date this book was published, but in the year 2007 Bill Schnoebelen found out that he was a vampire as well (just google him, maybe by this year he had found out that he was a zombie or a non-binary donkey from parallel universe.) Another one is Mike Warnke "a former satanic High Priest"(p.186) - who as it turns out, was never involved in Satanism.
So either the writers were so gullible or (and I think this is more likely) they just wanted to make a quick buck. There is one problem though. Its main audience is evangelical Christians (no one else would take seriously their claims of children worshiping Baphomet at the recess) but they make a point that not all occult practices are bad. That you need a guide or a teacher before you can embark upon your journey of ceremonial magic, for example (p.159.) The idea is that you have to be supervised. I think evangelicals would be flabbergasted by this; although I'm not sure if they would dare to read a book with a pentagram on the cover.
Why two stars then? Well, I found chapters on president assassinations, Charles Manson and Mexican cult entertaining, but of course I would look for reliable sources to learn more about those topics.
P.S. Couldn't help myself. There is this a passage about goals one satanic group had set to achieve in 1999. "Indoctrinate young people by infiltrating boy's/girls' clubs; by infiltrating schools, having prayers removed, encouraging teachers to discuss sex, drugs, and moral freedom; by promoting rebellion against parents and all authority figures" (pp.191-192.) Don't fret sisters and brothers of the dark. Servants of the radical left have accomplished all of it and didn't stop there. Now, you would be hard-pressed to find boy's/girls' clubs - according to this secret society, there is limitless number of genders and so it will be very tiring to infiltrate all those clubs, not to mention memorizing all those preferred pronouns.
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