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- From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
- X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan 3 1993
- Message-ID: <472510d10@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 08:18:54
- Lines: 32
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- Who: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
- What: <1993Jan11.111928.5468@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- With: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
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- ??> "50,000 murders / 365 days a year / 50 states = 2.74 ritual
- ??> murders per day in each state."
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- JJL> "How many women of child-bearing age are members of these
- JJL> cults? How many of them are pregnant at any one time? How
- JJL> many children do each of them have? Answer these questions,
- JJL> and see if you still think that "'2.74/day doesn't seem like
- JJL> an overly high number to me.'"
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- BV> "Another way of looking at it - in 1989, there were a total
- BV> of 18,947 homicides *TOTAL* in the US, according to the FBI
- BV> 'uniform crime reports'. So this would require over 2X the
- BV> total known homicide rate to be unknown 'ritual murders.'
- BV> I don't think this is plausible."
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- And 87 missing children taken by someone other than a non-custodial
- parent. Consider the 19,000 deaths on the freeways-- 90% alcohol
- related, 37,000 in cigarette-related deaths, 7,500 bathroom-and-
- kitchen-related deaths, 3,800 AIDS deaths, 45,000 cancer deaths
- other than lung and throat cancer. . . . if our Fundamentalist
- Christians were REALLY so concerned with the deaths in their
- "Satanic Conspiracy," they would stop making up fantasies for their
- cult members to consume without question, and get to work eradication
- alcohol and tobacco, and fund medical research instead of funding
- hate crimes like Colorado's Prop#9 and terrorism against women.
-
- --- Maximus 2.01wb
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