in 4th grade mrs zerbe told us that you could be arrested for praying to jesus in a public school but you were allowed to bring a small animal to sacrifice to some nebulous pagan deity. this was an adult woman who held a teaching position. she had children and a house.
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later on laura, the former goth youth group leader who had a sort of too-close relationship with one of the teens, told us that when she was a goth one night her cat stood up on its hind legs and walked towards her, because satan.
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this was a woman put in charge of teens. parents dropped children off to be supervised by this person. she was compensated for her labor by the church.
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one time when i was 19 the christian band i was in played this weekend "lock in", which is where the teens spend a weekend in the church. the speaker hired to do the sermonizing that weekend, after the altar call, presented a box of rocks "from the holy land" for the kids to buy
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i think they were like $15? cash. limited time offer. rocks from the holy land. imbued with god magic.
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which in my adult life has made me run back through my few decades in the church and in christian schools to spot other grifters. missionaries were often this sort. we need lots of donations because we recently were confronted with a local snake demon god of the indigenous pagans
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like that's a thing that several respected adults said. a snake demon god emerged from the jungle. they spotted a snake demon god kicking around the area. snake demon god. and we gave them money to help with that situation somehow.
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HATE it when i've gone among the pagans and am confronted with a snake demon god
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so my question now is how did these adults come to be slinging this clearly made up information and flimsy grifts at children? like how much was just utter delusion, how much did they see as exaggeration as a means to an end, and how much was straight up aware deception.
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because this wasn't just like recounting bible stories of zany happenings and god magic. this was like "7 or so years ago satan made my cat bipedal because i was going through a wicca phase"
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My fifth grade teacher taught us that because people had been having very specific visions of the Virgin Mary around the world, that the End Times were, like, the following year. We all very seriously believed him for a few months then forgot over summer break thank goodness.
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