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H. A. Titus's avatar

I’d always heard of the whole satanic panic stuff (and experienced some remnants of it in the late 2000s when my parents warned me to never play Dungeons and Dragons or read Harry Potter), but I’d never really looked into the history of it. Thank you! This article sent me down a whole rabbit trail last night and was quite interesting.

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Tim Cook's avatar

If you are interested, you might look into the online media work of Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes. they have both hosted multiple podcasts, some together and some with other hosts. Particularly the earlier episodes of the "You're Wrong About" pod have some really interesting stuff on the Satanic Panic and just the anatomy of moral panics in general. it's not scholarly or anything, obviously, these are just podcasts, but they do good research and are entertaining.

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H. A. Titus's avatar

Ooh, cool! I'll have to look into that, thank you!

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Michael Lee McDonald's avatar

I read her book. I believed a lot, but couldn't believe her.

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Cade's avatar

What do you think of ideas of restorative justice?

I'm not a fan of prison systems today in the west and I wonder what can be done to bring about comprehensive healing. Victim first, but also to perpetrator

If Stratford had not been given as much of a space to tout lies, what system could have been in place to attempt to heal her and prevent further harm to others (or herself for that matter).

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Dr. Laura Robinson's avatar

I'm not an expert but generally speaking I'm very, very skeptical of the prison system.

Stratford probably needed some kind of in-patient care, I think. She seemed to prefer having individuals take care of her but the problem with that was she never got any better.

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Cade's avatar

That is difficult and I do know there are a some psychiatric disabilities that are difficult to treat (like Narcissistic Personally disorder). But it's not impossible to treat and I think early detection is always better.

But I think we do have some responsibility to detect bad behavior and not give it the power that it could have.

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Outterson, Kevin's avatar

What impact do you think this episode had on clergy sexual abuse in evangelical spaces in the following decades?

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Dr. Laura Robinson's avatar

You know, I don't know. Because we didn't start to name it between adults until fairly recently - I think the Baylor study was the first.

This might be a better question for the Catholics who had their reckoning before evangelicals did -- and whose reckoning was closer to the 1980s-90s.

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