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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Martyrs to Pointlessness

Wednesday February 20, 2008
The couple in New South Wales, Australia who were ordered to remove material defaming the OTO from their website have since refused to do so, and now face jail time. There is no doubt they see themselves as martyrs to a great Satanic conspiracy, but the sad truth is they are victims of their own overactive imaginations. Despite the silliness of their claims,* I have no doubt they believe every word- and that's the trouble with grand conspiracy theories. They're seductive, but they ignore the sad truth that evil is so much more mundane. While they chase Satanic fantasies, real children around the world suffer, starve, and die in misery because their problems are so much less interesting.

*Namely, that the OTO is at the center of a gigantic conspiracy, involving powerful politicians and the wealthy elite,to torture and kill children, using an obscure and mostly broke magical order as a foolproof cover. I told you it was silly.

On a related note, an essay on the power of the internet to serve as a tool for spreading misinformation and mob censorship.

Comments

February 25, 2008 at 10:25 pm
(1) SandyS says:

There is a difference in having an opinion about something and breaking the law by slandering or libeling someone or a group. There are other ways to make a protest. I, myself, would like to protest acertain World ******Bank for failing to send me a cc statement and then calling ME after they changed me a late payt twice my min. payt. I think that is setting people up and taking advantage of them. But I am NOT going to put that on my website.

March 1, 2008 at 8:20 am
(2) Seamus o'broin says:

To be fair here the OTO is basically an offshoot of Freemasonry. Masonic Lodges are secreetive and there are alot of backroom business deals so its not hugely off.

Someone should mention to em that crowley was a degenerate herion addicted misogenist that the masons deny was ever a member of a lodge cos he told people things he wasnt supposed to in order to make a name for himself.

March 1, 2008 at 12:31 pm
(3) Jennifer Rose Emick says:

I assure you, from personal experience, it’s very, very hugely ‘off.’

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