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- Subject: Re: Ritual Abuse
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- Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:32:31 PST
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- From: burkel@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (a liberal pumpernickel)
-
- Um, taking the perspective of a pagan, a psych minor, a sexual abuse
- survivor and generally something that qualifies in the anthropological
- sense as a human, I just wanted to add a few cents here.
-
- (deletions)
-
- or experience with cults. We simply have too much symbolism embedded
- in our collective unconscious, related to the devil, etc, to avoid
- that threat.
-
- But, um, I don't think there are too many reputable therapists out
- there claiming that satanic abuse is valid. If there are, I guess
- I missed it, sorry.
-
- The only thing sad about this, to me, is that satanic cults cut the
- fringe of the unmainstream religions. I don't have to tell anyone
- here that. I think that what needs to be addressed is how to make
-
- HEAVY EMPHASIS (mine)
-
- the leap of logic from"look at all the satanic cult abuse" to,
- "let's kill all those pagan, ungodly, commie weirdo freaks" UNlogical.
-
- (End Emphasis)
-
- Did any of that malke sense?
-
- I know I didn't pass the past threads through my own little needle,
- bu that was MY cut on things....
-
- Blessed Be,
-
- Laura, the one who states the obvious until she gets it right
-
- Endquote.
-
- Sense enough, I think. I've never seen an example of ritual abuse.
- I've been the victim of a witchhunt. May you never suffer the same.
-
- Al Moore
-