Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-29
Books mentioned on Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon
Robert is joined again by Jake Hanrahan to continue to discuss Satanic Panic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans discussed Monsters by Sylvia Funston, The Dungeon Master by William C. Dear, and Satan's silence by Debbie Nathan and others, and criticized Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons: The Catechism of the New Age.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Monsters
Discussed“Uh in 1981 the book Mazes and Monsters was published on the case and it was just nonsense. It was followed shortly after by the 1982 film adaptation starring Tom Hanks which is a movie about how Dn D is the devil.”
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The Dungeon Master
Discussed“So, the private detective who detective who started all this published his own book, The Dungeon Master, where he clarified that Dn D had nothing to do with James' disappearance or suicide, which he instead again blamed on chronic depression.”
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Satan's silence
Satan's Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael R.
Discussed“I'm going to quote again from that book, Satan's Silence. That summer, Judy Johnson became preoccupied with the condition of her younger son's anus.”
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Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons: The Catechism of the New Age
Critiqued“In 1987, two batshit Christian activists published the Catechism of the New Age, an unhinged pamphlet that argued, among other things, that Dn D was evil because it encouraged critical thinking in children, which inevitably led to heresy of the devil.”
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