There was a lady who saw New Age influence in everything and talked about making her kid take back a Nintendo game because it had the word Mantra in it. She thought the Smurfs were co-opting the children of the day because Gargamel and Azreal were other names for Satan - which i don’t think is even right.
I remember hearing one dude talking about the Smurfs and how there was also a hidden homosexual message/ agenda since they were all dudes.
The one that cracked me up the most, though, was RAINBOW BRITE . . . they pointed out that she had a star on her face (no, it was not upside-down) and that the pentagram was a Satanic symbol.
This guy has too much fucking time on his hands. Lame.
The Satanic Panic stories from bisquito and Gunnar are great. I can’t get my head around people like that. We have hardly any of them in Australia, although if you provoke them, they’ll come out in droves. I realised this when I booked a GG Allin tribute on Good Friday…
Late 80’s? Don’t you mean early 80’s? buy late 80’s Satan died off and grunge was starting to plant their seeds that would become the takeover. The moral majority and the religious right were all late 70’s early 80’s and those two groups pushed satan big.
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grmpysmrf
Idiots will be idiots. I doubt anyone would have the time or patience to write a song based on how it would sound when played backwards. Right wing extremists have been rambling about this stuff since the days of the White Album.
There’s actually a fringe group that thinks you don’t have to try to write things backwards how ever mired in evil you are you will automatically translate to evil based strictly on your vocabulary or word choices.
They ran it on Bill Clinton and in all of his speeches “I lie” or “don’t trust me” or other such nonsense always showed up just based on his word choices in the speeches. He did not plan it consciously, that’s just how your subconscious tattles on you. or at least that’s the theory.
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grmpysmrf
Practically every one of the top 40 records being played on every radio station in the United States is a communication to the children to take a trip, to cop out, to groove. The psychedelic jackets on the record albums have their own hidden symbols and messages as well as the lyrics to all the top rock songs, and they all sing the same refrain: It’s fun to take a trip, put acid in your veins.
The Satanic Panic lasted from the '70s (when Hal Lindsey was a popular Christian author) to the early '90s when rap music became scarier than metal. I actually went to see Mike Warnke in the early '90s. He was billed as a “Christian comedian”. The joke was on us because he wasn’t remotely funny.
When I dropped Electrical Soul Wish backwards on Buzz McCoy’s facebook someone commented saying that they should call their next tour the War Circus tour.
