America’s strange Satanic Panic
Silly episodes of religion flare occasionally — and America’s Satanist hysteria of the 1980s and ’90s was especially ludicrous. Many fundamentalists thought the moon-and-stars logo
James Haught July 14, 2022
Silly episodes of religion flare occasionally — and America’s Satanist hysteria of the 1980s and ’90s was especially ludicrous. Many fundamentalists thought the moon-and-stars logo
When Vera Rubin was a 10-year-old girl in Washington, D.C., she watched enchanted as the night sky rotated outside her north-facing bedroom window. At 14,
There’s so much that’s happened over the past week — and so much for us at the Freedom From Religion Foundation to grapple with. “Thoughts
Religious insanity scarred Europe for a long time. After killing Muslims in Crusades and Jews in massacres, Christians began murdering fellow Christians who deviated from
Some people think the Crusades were romantic quests by shining knights wearing crimson crosses — but they actually were a nightmare of slaughter, rape and
The Renaissance — three centuries of reawakening, from around 1300 to 1600 — is commonly acknowledged as the European epoch when the oppressive Age of
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