whatever you choose to label it, intergenerational ritual abuse went on and is going on now.
And you know that, how? And by whom? Priests, maybe! There certainly are people who abuse children, but it has nothing to do with any kind of Satanic ritual. That's a myth invented by the Church. In all those cases that were investigated, it was found that the person interrogating the children planted those ideas in their heads.
And as it stands, Satanism was pretty much invented by the media. It has no history at all past about 1970. It's just something someone made up. Satanists follow pretty standard Pagan/Wiccan rituals, since that's what it's derived from (they just replaced Pan with Satan), and they are ignorant of the real practice. There are no covens that perform any kind of sexual abuse on anyone. It's not part of the religion.
I stand by my statement that it's a myth, or more specifically, a "
moral panic". Witch-hunts were also moral panics, and the poor victims of such things were not harming anyone, and most of the time were not even witches. It's mob mentality at work. One idiot convinces a bunch of other idiots some crazy idea, and then the witch hunt begins. Or a war starts, or terrorism. It's all the same thing. The Church probably killed more people than any pagans ever did!
The people who start moral panics are uninformed and misguided religious zealots. It's probably similar to the whistle-blower complex, except in this case the "facts" are all in their heads. These are the people who believe the devil is the root of all human's woes, even though it's just a fairy tale.
As a demonstration of such things, it's still going on in Africa all the time lately. People get it stuck in their heads that their misfortune, or bad crops, or some illness spreading the region, is being caused by a witch-doctor, and they go and kill the person. Does it stop their problems? Of course not.
Then you have the phony
witch-doctors taking money from wealthy business men, and really doing ritualistic killings. But that has nothing to do with real witch-doctors, shaman, or so called satanists in this or European countries. That's about money.
I had a religious guy give me a book once that was titled something like the "Truth about Wicca" and went on to claim that we worship Satan. And that's the unfortunate view by most Christians of witches. It's superimposing their belief system on someone else's. They also made up "black magic".
I'm sorry to hear about your wife. I didn't know one could become bipolar. Hopefully she has found something that helps her with the cycling.
Well, she might have had a touch of it all her life, but it wasn't until the PTSS from 9/11 that it really showed up. It started with depression and anxiety, which is to be expected with PTSS, and then while she was in the hospital for an asthma related issue, and they put her on steroids, and that pushed her over the edge, and she had a psychotic break.
She's on a couple of meds and has been doing fine for the past few years.
While we are on the subject, a lot of the mental illness in this country is caused by fluoride in the drinking water, which calcifies the pineal gland, as well as other food additives, and also the bad habit of fat free diets, which are lacking in fatty acids needed by the body.
