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It was written by a Christian stand-up comedian who later was exposed as a liar, but it was a wildly popular book among the Christian fundamentalist community, and it's said to have laid the groundwork for the idea of widespread satanic cults in the US.
You can trace that back to a book from 1972 by a guy named Mike Warnke. He was a Christian sandup comedian. He also was totally full of it.
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It was written by a Christian stand-up comedian who later was exposed as a liar, but it was a wildly popular book among the Christian fundamentalist community, and it's said to have laid the groundwork for the idea of widespread satanic cults in the US.
You can trace that back to a book from 1972 by a guy named Mike Warnke. He was a Christian sandup comedian. He also was totally full of it.
He wrote a book called The Satan Cellar where he talked about his life as a former satanic cult priest, I believe and drug dealer.
And he was eventually exposed far too late by the Christian magazine Cornerstone as almost entirely fraudulent and made up in just a liar.
But his book just sold like wildfire through the Christian fundamentalist community and basically really established the groundwork for the idea that there were satanic cults operating in the United States, right?