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It was a book written by a Christian stand-up comedian who claimed to be a former satanic cult priest and drug dealer. It was later discovered that he was a liar, but the book sold well and laid the groundwork for the idea of satanic cults operating in the US.
You can trace that back to a book from 1972 by a guy named Mike Warnke. He wrote a book called The Satan Cellar where he talked about his life as a former satanic cult priest, I believe and drug deale...
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It was a book written by a Christian stand-up comedian who claimed to be a former satanic cult priest and drug dealer. It was later discovered that he was a liar, but the book sold well and laid the groundwork for the idea of satanic cults operating in the US.
You can trace that back to a book from 1972 by a guy named Mike Warnke. 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?