Misdirection

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The headline?

"Grandmothers arrested over satanic sex abuse at school"

And what made the abuse 'satanic'?

The alleged abuse — in the town of Rignano Flaminio, 25 miles (40km) north of Rome — came to light when some of the children began describing their "games" to their parents. They drew pictures of a "man in black" who wore a hood and drank his own blood,

Okay, this fits pop-cultural ideas of Satanism . . . .

and said they had played a game in which "a wolf chases a squirrel and eats it".

What? Now one animal eating another is 'satanic'???

They were warned that if they told their parents about the "games", they would be "taken away from their mothers by devils".

So Satanism is the only belief system that talks of devils? Oh wait - many of the world's spiritual beliefs refer to 'devils'. So what other evidence was there that this abuse was 'satanic'?

The article doesn't present any. Not a pentagram-daubed wall in sight. :-P

In fact, the article actually goes on to quote the parish priest as saying that the women "were church-goers and taught at Sunday school."

KJV Leviticus 16:10:

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

The word translated by 'scapegoat' is 'azazel'.
 

Comments

[porcineflight.livejournal.com]

I find it particularly interesting, the line about how they couldn't have done it because they all go to church and teach sunday school