satanic

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The 1980s, during his own youth, was the heyday for conspiracy theories about satanic cults sacrificing children, Uscinski noted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Erica Portnoy, a senior staff technologist at EFF, argues that “social media is just today’s satanic panic.”

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2026

This trio works for the Roman Catholic Church to determine whether various strange goings-on are the result of satanic forces or more mundane phenomena.

From New York Times • May 20, 2024

In fact, by the early 1800s, when William Blake was writing of "dark satanic mills," numbers involved in manufacturing had long been flatlining.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

The old man watched him with victorious merriment, sitting in his musty blue armchair like some satanic and hedonistic deity on a throne, a stolen U.S.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller