Here We Go Again? Satanic Panic in Italy
Wednesday April 25, 2007
Three grandmothers are among several people arrested today on accusations they sedated and sexually abused fifteen young children in their charge for more than a year. The story as related by the Times Online is a sickeningly, chillingly famiar one: three well-liked, trusted teachers and their associates are accused of holding secret gatherings in the woods, attended by a mysterious "Man in black." The children's accounts of these events include blood drinking and an unlikely "game" where a wolf devored a mouse.
Even though these tales have all the same characteristics of the false confessions that ruined so many lives two decades ago, the authroties have taken the allegations seriously enough to arrest the teachers and their friends. What's especially creepy about this round is that it not only so closely resembles the Satanic Panics of the US and UK in the eighties, but also elements of seventeenth century witch hunts as well.
Comments
I got to this link trying to email the author. This might not be the right place to respond, but the article regarding eerie similarity between Jesus and some aforementioned gods predating Christianity stated that alot of gods were born on the 25 of Dec. No where in the Bible does it say Jesus was born on that date so why compare pagan beliefs with the truth. I see many small descrepancies like this in many articles. I wonder why people try so hard to disprove the truth about the one and ONLY God…the Alpha and the Omega, creator of all things.
Todd, if you read carefully, you’ll see that nowhere did I claim that Dec 25th was Jesus’ birthday- the article clearly states that the celebration of his borthday was intentionally fixed to the time of a pagan festival, which is true. As to Jesus’ actual birthday, it matters not to me- I think it would be difficult to prove that he existed at all, let alone when he celebrated a birthday. The overarching point is that many of the ‘unique qualities’ assigned to Jesus are not in fact unique at all, being aspects of pre-existing gods and religions.
Todd:
The numbers of similarities between the xian god-man (Jesus of Nazareth) and the god-men of various other ancient religions would likely astound you. While the person Jesus may have lived, all that is ascribed to him in the bible is likely a result of historical duplication. The story of Jesus is not too dissimilar from the stories of Krishna (India), Osiris/Dionysis (Greek) and Mithra (Persia). There are about a dozen other god-men whose stories have enough similarities to be noted, but the three above are near duplicates of the Jesus myth.
I don’t see any reference to Christianity or Jesus in this article, perhaps the comments are based on some other article. I think it’s always a “witch hunt” when people stop being rational and start listening to children who may or may not be describing something real. One of my sons came in the door once and I asked where his brother was, and he told me he got hit by a car and an ambulance came and took him away. I rushed outside and found out it was totally untrue. Also in NM the newspaper this week said that parents of gang members are moving out of the city to places where property values are lower since they now have to pay for the vandalism that their little gangsters commit. What is that about?!!!?? Parents assuming (and permitting) their kids to be criminals and accepting their gang membership???!!! I never thought I would say it, but we need to bring back the draft. A two year stint in the military ought to straighten out a bunch of misfit, lazy, scoff-law teenagers. Put them in at 16 and make them finish high school. Then if they want to re-up at 18 they can. Sandy
PS: I am not in favor of child molesting, but sometimes it’s the furor over the events that actually traumatize the “victim” not the sexuality at all. Letting children run things is sort of crazy. At day care one day I went to pick up my son and one mother nearly hit the fan because the “teacher” told her she had to give the boy a bath because he “smelled bad.” I thought the mother was going to hit the ceiling. It turned out he soiled his pants badly and needed to be cleaned and put into clean clothes. A teacher that lets a kids walk around in poopy pants all day would be insane. Hell, if they can’t convict Michael Jackson, with eye witnesses, how can they convict an ordinary person? It’s much easier to just destroy their lives. We had a friend who committed suicide because a man accused him of gay rape over a decade before when he was 17. What is it with people becoming so hostile and irrational lately?
Todd, todd..
The bible has been rewritten many times to acommodate certain historical leaders.
Truth? Look it up in a dictionary.
I’d respect belief, but blind fundamentalism like this is just.. Oh, nevermind.