{"id":1351,"date":"2014-12-22T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:41:30","slug":"why-evangelicals-fall-prey-to-ritual-abuse-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Why evangelicals fall prey to ritual abuse tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141222Shogren.jpg\" alt=\"141222Shogren\" width=\"260\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141222Shogren.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141222Shogren-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Dec. 22, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c\u201cWe evangelical Christians by definition live by our own narrative of creation, fall, and redemption. We believe in good and evil. That is why, as a group, we might be vulnerable to other meta-narratives \u2013 after all, if you believe in one, it\u2019s easier to accept a second and a third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne example: in the 1980s and 1990s too many of us accepted the story of widespread Satanic Ritual Abuse, despite the fact that the evidence could not be found, nor could anyone name the thousands of missing children who supposedly had been sacrificed to the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c \u2018<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/openoureyeslord.com\/2014\/12\/19\/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics-has-its-50th-anniversary\/#more-4832\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Paranoid Style in American Politics\u2019 has its 50th Anniversary<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d\u00a0by Gary Shogren at Open Our Eyes, Lord!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Although \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/1964\/11\/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Paranoid Style in American Politics<\/a>\u201d by Richard Hofstadter was first published in response to Barry Goldwater\u2019s presidential campaign, it continues to offer insights into the attraction of a wide range of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 22, 2014 \u201c\u201cWe evangelical Christians by definition live by our own narrative of creation, fall, and redemption. We believe in good and evil. That is why, as a group, we might be vulnerable to other meta-narratives \u2013 after all, if you believe in one, it\u2019s easier to accept a second and a third. \u201cOne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}