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- From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
- Message-ID: <BHsZXB3w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:18:22 GMT
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- dmcanzi@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi) writes:
-
- > In article <93022.24797.L629159@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> L629159@LMSC5.IS.
- > >From: falcao@felix.metaphor.com (Ronnie Falcao)
- > >>... if I were trying to get my hands on babies, no questions
- > >>asked, I know how I'd do it. I'd set up a Crisis Pregnancy
- > >>Center in an area with a lot of teen pregnancies. ...
- > >>... How accurately are records kept for
- > >>adoptions across state lines? What are the opportunities
- > >>for babies to "disappear"?
- > >
- > > The controls on adoption in the US are so stringent that attempting
- > >to adopt a child is an extremely frustrating experience for most.
- > >very large numbers of would-be adopters are ultimatley driven to
- > >go outside the US to find children.
- >
- > "Stringent controls" are also a good camouflage for a shortage of
- > adoptable babies, such as would result from large numbers of ritual
- > sacrifices.
-
- You know, I'm really astounded that anyone would seriously advance
- such an argument. It's like saying that the _lack_ of evidence for a crime
- is therefore _evidence_ for how clever the criminal is.
-
- Until you can find proof that child-sacrificing Satanists are using
- adoption programs to obtain sacrificial babies, the above statement is
- paranoid nonsense.
-
- >
- > Nothing, as far as I know, prevents Satanists from infiltrating
- > pro-life organizations, placing themselves in key positions, and using
- > those positions to advance the cause of Satan. They can even
- > infiltrate your congregation and do a fine simulation of Christian
- > fervor. *Nothing* will prevent them from pretending to praise God
- > without meaning it. God won't stop them: not all who say "Lord, Lord"
- > are bound for the Kingdom of Heaven. And the Father of Lies can be
- > counted on to view their duplicity with approval. It must be assumed
- > that all large pro-life organizations and Christian congregations and
- > many of the smaller ones have Satanist infiltrators. But it will be
- > very difficult, or perhaps impossible, to tell the Satanists from the
- > true Christians.
- > --
- > David Canzi
-
- The above paragraph has so many things wrong with it that I don't
- know where to begin. Throughout, the assumption that there are networks of
- child-sacrificing Devil-worshippers seems taken as a given by Mr. Canzi-- an
- assumption that has never been proven, and for which there is considerable
- reason to doubt.
-
- Mr. canzi also seems to be responding to others pointing out the
- lack of evidence for Satan-worshippers killing babies, by claiming that
- because there's no evidence, that just goes to show how extensive and
- powerful these Satanists are. By the same logic, we might easily assume that
- Mr. Canzi is a Satan-worshipper, covering up his own involvement in child
- murder by adopting a more strident, anti-'Satanist' tone.
-
- I don't suppose it'd make much different to state that members of
- the Church of Satan do not murder children.
-
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- Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano revpk@cellar.org
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