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October 2022

October 11, 2022

Selling Satan 2: From Mike Warnke to Billy & Dick

It turns out Mike Warnke wasn't the only one selling fantastical lies about Satanic conspiracies.

March 2021

March 03, 2021

Moral panics are not moral crusades

Moral panics are not moral at all.

August 2019

August 22, 2019

White Jesus doesn’t care about anti-Semitic lies

Pastor Mark is basically Martin Niemoller circa 1924. He has no gospel, no Bible, no...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

The persistent appeal of Satanic baby-killerism

The fantasy isn't so much that there are real monsters, but that if there were,...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

And his own received him not

Anti-refugee and anti-immigrant white evangelicals' "misconceptions" are not the result of those folks being tricked...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

Satanic Panic: We wanted it to be true (and still do)

The typewriter-and-overhead-transparency production values of that weird 1989 police advisory can trick us into thinking...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

Alex Jones & the kitten-burners

On Friday we looked at one of the stranger theories promoted by Alex Jones on...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

But you can’t expect to be bright and bon vivant

The most important (and interesting) thing about outrageous fake news and ridiculous lies from politicians...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

My sweet embraceable you

"As Blanche rattled off song titles, LaVey doodled away on two or three of his...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

The Satan-selling con-men are boring. Their Satan-buying audience is fascinating.

I read Sarah Zagorski's article on Zachary King at LifeNew.com and I am, frankly, bored...

August 20, 2015

Back to the ’80s: ‘I Performed Satanic Rituals Inside Abortion Clinics’ says ‘former Satanist’ at LifeNews.com

Huge, if true: "Just after I turned 14, the coven members came to me and...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

Why I wrote the same thing I always do when the Liars for Jesus attacked Planned Parenthood yet again

Wherein I respond to the question of why I have been silent about Operation Rescue's...

July 15, 2015

Satanic baby-killers are putting dead babies in Pepsi!

You can learn a lot on the Internet. Today, for example, I learned that Pepsi...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Back to the ’80s, because we never left them (part 2)

Any skeptical questions about the reality of these alleged horrors was reinterpreted -- and fiercely...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

The Satanic Panic arose from abortion politics

Rather suddenly -- in about a decade -- white evangelical politics, identity, piety and dogma...

June 2014

June 03, 2014

The need to believe in something awful

Mike Warnke and Bob Larson are just con-artists who will say whatever they need to...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

You want much more than I’m giving

Superlatives are the worst. Mike Warnke is making a comeback. It's cruel to take teenagers...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Satanic baby-killers have destroyed American Christianity

"This woman right here? Believes in killing babies. That man believes in killing babies. That...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

2. ‘The Conjuring’ reminds us that the only way to stop Satanic baby-killers is to punish women

The Warrens' shtick is a Gothic Catholic variation of the same con Mike Warnke and...

July 29, 2013

1. ‘The Amityville Horror’ is not based on a true story

I'm sorry if that disappoints anyone, but we're not free to change what is or...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Imaginary Satanic baby-killers, real people still in prison

"A roster of leading psychologists and related experts from around the world last week signed...

March 18, 2013

Satanic baby-killers: What the Devil happened in Arkansas?

Beginning in the 1980s, a feverish hysteria swept across America. It was centered in one...

April 2011

April 19, 2011

Mike Warnke and Marriage Equality

Mike Warnke was a con artist. He traveled the country for years, packing the pews...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Christine O’Donnell, Mike Warnke and the imaginary Satanists

The oddest thing to me about Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's "I Was A Teenage...

February 2010

February 01, 2010

TF: The Illuminati

So I'm reading a painstakingly thorough work of investigative journalism when suddenly, in Chapter 6,...