It's telling how often the word "ritual" is preceded by "satanic" in public discourse.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing About 0.15% of the time (in recent books, which is not quite "public discourse") https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ritual%2Csatanic+ritual&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Critual%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csatanic%20ritual%3B%2Cc0 …2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @mtraven
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing Surprising that it’s still climbing, since the height of satanic panic was 80s1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing Oh, hmm, only up to 2000: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ritual%2Csatanic+ritual&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Critual%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csatanic%20ritual%3B%2Cc0 … “Cuz satanism’s so passé”—Dandy Warhols1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing Something I didn’t realize until recently is that early Protestant propaganda was that the Catholic mass was >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > literally black magic. This seems to be the ultimate root of most contemporary anti-ritualism. >1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > I’m increasingly impressed by the ways in which Protestantism and rationalism, although notionally enemies >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > since the late 1800s, have profoundly influenced each other (and still do). This has been mostly forgotten.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness this is of course a major current of neoreactionary analysis ;)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Seems like there’s an academic market opportunity to write a decent book about this :-)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@sarahdoingthing I’m getting fragments of the story from many sources, but no one has pulled it together as far as I can tell
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