From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:18:22 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

dmcanzi@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi) writes:

> In article <93022.24797.L629159@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> L629159@LMSC5.IS.
> >From: falcao@felix.metaphor.com (Ronnie Falcao)
> >>... if I were trying to get my hands on babies, no questions
> >>asked, I know how I'd do it.  I'd set up a Crisis Pregnancy
> >>Center in an area with a lot of teen pregnancies. ...
> >>...  How accurately are records kept for
> >>adoptions across state lines?  What are the opportunities
> >>for babies to "disappear"?
> >
> >  The controls on adoption in the US are so stringent that attempting
> >to adopt a child is an extremely frustrating experience for most.
> >very large numbers of would-be adopters are ultimatley driven to
> >go outside the US to find children.
> 
> "Stringent controls" are also a good camouflage for a shortage of
> adoptable babies, such as would result from large numbers of ritual
> sacrifices.

	You know, I'm really astounded that anyone would seriously advance
such an argument. It's like saying that the _lack_ of evidence for a crime
is therefore _evidence_ for how clever the criminal is.

	Until you can find proof that child-sacrificing Satanists are using
adoption programs to obtain sacrificial babies, the above statement is
paranoid nonsense.

> 
> Nothing, as far as I know, prevents Satanists from infiltrating
> pro-life organizations, placing themselves in key positions, and using
> those positions to advance the cause of Satan.  They can even
> infiltrate your congregation and do a fine simulation of Christian
> fervor.  *Nothing* will prevent them from pretending to praise God
> without meaning it.  God won't stop them:  not all who say "Lord, Lord"
> are bound for the Kingdom of Heaven.  And the Father of Lies can be
> counted on to view their duplicity with approval.  It must be assumed
> that all large pro-life organizations and Christian congregations and
> many of the smaller ones have Satanist infiltrators.  But it will be
> very difficult, or perhaps impossible, to tell the Satanists from the
> true Christians.
> -- 
> David Canzi

	The above paragraph has so many things wrong with it that I don't
know where to begin. Throughout, the assumption that there are networks of
child-sacrificing Devil-worshippers seems taken as a given by Mr. Canzi-- an
assumption that has never been proven, and for which there is considerable
reason to doubt. 

	Mr. canzi also seems to be responding to others pointing out the
lack of evidence for Satan-worshippers killing babies, by claiming that
because there's no evidence, that just goes to show how extensive and
powerful these Satanists are. By the same logic, we might easily assume that
Mr. Canzi is a Satan-worshipper, covering up his own involvement in child
murder by adopting a more strident, anti-'Satanist' tone.

	I don't suppose it'd make much different to state that members of
the Church of Satan do not murder children.


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Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano                                  revpk@cellar.org

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