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- From: riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs)
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- Subject: Re: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:20:52 GMT
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- 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 ?
-
- 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.
-
- --
-
- "When up a dangerous faction starts, "My opinions do not represent
- With wrath and vengeance in their hearts; those of my employer or
- By solemn League and Cov'nant bound, any government agency."
- To ruin, slaughter, and confound; - Bill Riggs (1992)
- To turn religion to a fable,
- And turn the Government to a Babel;
- Pervert the law, disgrace the gown,
- Corrupt the senate, rob the crown;
- To sacrifice old England's glory,
- And make her infamous in story.
- When such a tempest shook the land,
- How could unguarded virtue stand ?"
- - Jonathan Swift (1732)
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