Why is it the only people who seem to have any first-hand "knowledge" of Satanism are rightwingers? [View All]

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I've never met a Satanist. I've never seen ads looking for people to join a satanic cult or join in on some kind of satanic rituals.

I've never heard anyone ever talk about knowing or meeting such people, except for rightwing crazies.

Same with witchcraft (other than the few people who like to think of themselves as 'witches' but just go out in the woods and dance and have whatever harmless rituals they do; I'm talking about here about anyone who thinks they're actually casting spells, doing demonic summoning, or the other shit that the rightwing crazies accuse witchcraft of).

I seriously think the rightwing just makes the shit up. It makes for great sermon material if the "preacher" can, instead of using something from real life, invent some fictional "I read in the paper about another Satanic sacrifice of a baby!" to stir up the fear or pull out some bullshit line "I used to be a satanist/witch/whatever and did evil things with blood and hexes and we made zombies but then I met Jesus!" instead of just offering a more real, genuine story of their epiphany or encounter with the divine. Though since they're crazy power-hungry rightwing assholes, they've probably never actually had an epiphany or encounter with the divine other than the epiphany "Holy crap, I can make shitload of money by twisting people's religious sensibilities!"

I never hear liberals or educated people talk about such things as though they actually exist.

Rightwingers talk about this shit all the time, especially on Christian radio and in their churches.

Just going on the number of stories I've heard from these assholes, about a tenth of our population must be secret satanists and witches with, apparently, a shitload of Very Real and Very Evil Power.

Curious that they never use it. A ten percent population with magic abilities should have been able to take the country over easily a generation or two ago.