Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

by Kurt Andersen

Since the Lord decided before the beginning of time which of us will spend eternity with Him, she explained to her listeners, any one of us might hold a winning ticket, regardless of our status in the here and now. The clergy’s learning and degrees and titles give them no special lock on godliness.

A primer for any American believer to become a self-empowered clergyman or prophet.

Increase Mather, the problem in Salem was that Satan had bewitched some of the accusers into making false accusations—the devil made the good people do it.

And this continued as a response to anything similar, up until 1990s with “recovered memories of paedophilic satanic rituals”