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  1. Organization: Masters student, Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wg2b+
  3. Newsgroups: alt.gothic
  4. Message-ID: <Mf3aopG00iV141Tjwl@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:09:09 -0500 
  6. From: Scott Gregory <wg2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: Re: Satanism and Gothdom?
  8. In-Reply-To: <AU388OT@hp832.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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  11. Excerpts from netnews.alt.gothic: 20-Nov-92 Satanism and Gothdom? by
  12. M.Gates@informatik.hu-be 
  13. > an aesthetic perspective. I personally have always connected
  14. > with Catholic iconography, imagery, etc.  Who needs to look
  15. > outside the Church for dark inspiration...what with the
  16. > crucified image of Christ, the death-cults, the witch and
  17. > heretic persecutions all *within* that institution, there  
  18. > would seem to be more than enough morbidity, horror, 
  19. > mystery to provide endless amusement and entertainment.
  20.  
  21.     Don't forget the all-pervasive Catholic guilt/angst.  And always
  22. remember that many o' the big goth names are/were Catholic (a
  23. disproprtionately large amount, considering most are from England).
  24.  
  25. -Scott
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