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

She did not, however, repeat her claims about contract killers or satanic cults, and the prosecutor did not ask her about these things.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

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

A recent bestseller advocated “zero tolerance” for errors and brandished the words horror, satanic, ghastly, and plummeting standards on its first page.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker