Shits wild. That humans made it this fair is low-key impressive. Like 40 years ago people were like, "yeah, demons".
I was gonna say this. At the very least, most evangelicals definitely still believe in demons, Satan, and a hell of eternal torment for non-Christians.
I haven't listened to this yet, so I'm not sure if this comes up during these episodes. But if you want a good book about stuff like this I'd recommend Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Ross Cheit. I'm still working my way through it (it's like 500 pages worth of dense and heavy material), but it's very well researched. You can find it on library genesis.
Here's part of the description pulled from Goodreads:
Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem.
As someone who lived through this, it sucked. Luckily I only got hit by the cultural fragmentation, when my parents decided to search out "Satanic" books I might have.
Mostly AD&D books, so if THAC0 is a key part of your rituals, they definitely might help!
It might. Sorry you had to deal with that, for something silly, too. Is there a chapo D&D yet, btw? Never played, but have always wanted to try it
I think there was a suggestion to start a Chapo D&D group, but I'm not sure if it got off the ground.
I was listening to it this morning and felt physically sick during the part about that "incest expert." Blech what a creep
The part about counseling being cheaper than locking up the perpetrators or reducing poverty was a perfect piece of Reagan-era neoliberal thinking
This is definitely one of the darkest episodes yet and that's saying something for BtB. Especially part two which I just finished listening to.
The multi-part series Behind the Police if you haven't listened is really good, the Tiger King episode is hilarious, the John McAfee episodes, basically anything about fraud doctors with recurring guest Billy Wayne Davis (who is also the guest on the Tiger King episode) and the ones about Ben Shapiro's shitty racist novel are all good, The Second American Civil War You Never Heard Of (about the early 20th century labor movement) and of course the Christmas non-bastard special about John Brown.
Ted Gunderson, former head of Memphis, Dallas, and Los Angeles FBI, says occult secret societies very much do have a hand in running the game, also claims the state had a hand in OKC and WTC bombing. Pretty interesting guy who was clamoring about the elite child sex trafficking ring as early as the 80s.
Gunderson had a pretty interesting character arc : Constitution Party chud considered for the head of the FBI who wouldn't stop shittalking the CIA and was eventually poisoned to death.
