From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Religion & Crime / "Satanic Conspiracy"
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:13:34 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

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Now,  the  above was more or less reflected in  all  the  UK 
national  newspapers.  The SAFF (S.A. Legal  Fighting  Fund) 
rushed out the following press release in return:
 
     BIAS IN NSPCC ANNUAL REPORT PUTS FAMILIES AT RISK
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The countries leading child welfare organisation has  chosen 
to perpetuate fabricated scares from fundamentalists and use 
*disproved* allegations about Satanic linked Child Sex Abuse
in the full knowledge that this could lead to a break up  of 
good families who adhere to minority religious creeds.
 
The NSPCC are fully aware that there is no proof  whatsoever 
that  Satanists  are more likely to  involve  themselves  in 
sexual abuse of children than anyone else and have been sent 
evidence  which proves that a child is 30 times more  likely 
to  be  abused by the Christian Clergy  than  by  Satanists. 
Where then, we ask, is the NSPCC campaign against paedophile 
Vicars?
 
FBI DOCUMENT IGNORED BY NSPCC?
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Furthermore the NSPCC are in possession of a definitive  FBI 
document  resulting from a two year nationwide  research  in 
Satanic Crime Scare which categorically states that  Satanic 
Crime does not exist and is the result of scaremongering  by 
extremist  fundamentalist  groups. The NSPCC has  chosen  to 
ignore  this information in favour of medieval  superstition 
derived from a handful of its inspectors whose comments  and 
scaremongering  reveal a dangerous subconscious bias in  the 
administration of the NSPCC.
 
The NSPCC was warned following their carefully worded  press 
statement  of  July 17 1989 that  ignorance  of  alternative 
religions  by  the popular press had ment that  the  genuine 
religious  beliefs of Paganism/Witchcraft would be  confused 
in  any  statements which refered to Satanism and  that  the 
growing  number of good, honest and honourable  young  Pagan 
families  were  at  risk from  over  generalisations  and  a 
misconception of the problem at hand.
 
Yet  despite  offers to help differentiate and  educate  the 
NSPCC  about these beliefs in continued  corespondence  with 
Kevin  Barrett the policy information officer of  the  NSPCC 
the NSPCC went ahead in its annual report and  irresponsibly 
covered  the  scare without ANY hard evidence to  prove  its 
conclusions  and have thereby perpetuated the  ignorance  of 
the general populace and exacerbated the intolerance already 
growing within out society to minority religious beliefs.
 
NSPCC LAST BASTION OF IMPERIAL COLONIALISM?
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The NSPCC an dour Christian Culture has failed to move  with 
the times and have acted emotionally without considering the 
effects  of their arrogance on Sikhs;  Moslems;  Shintoists; 
Buddhists;   Hindus;  Jews;  Pagans;  and  the   myriad   of 
philosophies  and religions which now make up our  pluralist 
society.  Just because something is different does not  mean 
that  it  is  subversive  or criminal  and  it  is  only  by 
jetisoning   the  arrogance  of  colonial  thinking   an   d 
implementing  a learning process that we will come to  terms 
with a truly multi-cultural society.
 
The  NSPCC  is out of touch.  White,  married,  middle-class 
Christ  in suburbia is now a MINORITY phenomenon within  our 
population.   As   our  society  develops   into   a   truly 
multi-racial and multi-cultural melting pot the people  will 
grow increasingly weary with that kind of self-righteousness 
which  measures all right and wrong by a restricted  set  of 
values  which  do  not take into  account  the  dignity  and 
aspirations of different beliefs.
 
In  short the NSPCC have made just about the  most  terrible 
mistake  that a self-appointed childrens' charity can  make. 
Child  abuse  is  a universal and terrible  crime  which  is 
perpetrated by criminals regardless of creed and culture. To 
suggest  that  all who adhere to one particular  belief  are 
more   likely  to  abuse  children  than  anyone   else   is 
intellectually constipated and misleading as insisting  that 
all blacks have a tendency towards crime or that all muslims 
are fanatical terrorists.
 
Our society has made great inroads into realising the effect 
of  subconscious racism and sexual discrimination and it  is 
about  time that our people set themselves free  of  pundits 
and  experts who are culturally prejudiced against  allowing 
others to follow their freedom of belief. The restriction of 
such inalienable human rights is a despicable action whether 
consciously or unconsciously done.
 
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--- Maximus 2.00
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