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Religious Studies. History of Religion. Social Sciences. Table of Contents. Sign in to annotate. The next decade brought in newer denominations like the Luciferian Children of Satan, founded by Marco Dimitri in Italy in Dimitri was convicted of child abuse but was later cleared.

The Satanic Reds formed in in New York, and combined Satanism with socialism and Lovecraftian concepts—a subgenre of horror fiction. The s Satanic Panic saw Christian fundamentalists push the idea that Satanic cults were systematically abusing children in rituals and committing widespread murder, and successfully convince the general public through sensational news coverage.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez , when finally captured in , claimed to be a Satanist, employing Satanic symbolism to his look and claiming to know Lavey, adding fuel to the fire of the panic. Lavey claimed they had briefly met in the streets in the s, but Ramirez had never set foot in the church. The panic escalated, with Satanic Ritual Abuse becoming a standard aspect of high profile cases like the McMartin School in California.

These criminal cases featured a consistent lack of evidence and alleged coercion on the part of child psychologists pushing the conspiracy theory. The zeal of the fundamentalists led to few if any investigations or prosecutions of actual Satanists. Most of the victims of the frenzy were other Christians. In Barton appointed author and Church member Peter H.

Gilmore as high priest and his wife, church administrator Peggy Nadramia, as high priestess. The GCL follows many LaVeyan principles with touches of the occult and has chapters in other countries. The most successful result of church divisions is The Satanic Temple. It first gained attention in with a satirical rally against Florida Governor Rick Scott, but grew into a more organized group quickly. Calling itself a non-theistic religion embracing the Devil as a symbolic form of rebellion in the tradition of Milton, the Temple devoted itself to political action focused on the separation of church and state, religious equality and reproductive rights.

The Satanic Temple gained notoriety through two attempts to have a statue of Baphomet legally placed on two state capitol grounds—Oklahoma in and in Arkansas in —in reaction to government-sanctioned 10 Commandments monuments. The Temple launched a physical location in Salem, Massachusetts, in and was recognized as a religion by the U.

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