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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175950.10718@netcom.com>
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- References: <C1FK95.6J5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <BHsZXB3w164w@cellar.org> <1733@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:59:50 GMT
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- In article <1733@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
- >In article <BHsZXB3w164w@cellar.org> revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
- >>
- >
- > And how do YOU know this, Brian ? Is the assertion that
- >"members of the Church of Satan do not murder children" one of those
- >extraordinary claims that require extraordinary evidence - or not ?
-
- Let me get this straight, you consider a claim that some group
- does "not murder children" extraordinary??? Perhaps you would be so
- good as to tell us what the word extraordinary means to you.
-
- > Or are you simply making this assertion with the knowledge
- >that, under the law, one is innocent until proven guilty ?
- >
- > Clearly, this whole exchange started because someone out
- >there had an ideological agenda, not because there was some massive
- >misconception in the American public having to do with Satanic
- >cults. After all, if there ARE any real Satan worshipers out there
- >killing babies - well, all you "enlightened folks" surely realize
- >that it was all due the fact that those poor, sick, misguided
- >people were all child abuse victims themselves, not any such
- >old-fashioned notion like "sin" or malevance on the subjects'
- >part.
- >
- >
- >
- >Bill R.
- >
-
- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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