Jrrarglblarg
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Thinking about this, I'm wondering about the assumptions about Satanism that underpin some of this nonsense.
For example, the antlers. Is there any established association between antlers and Satanism? The devil is usually depicted with goat horns, not antlers. Antlers are more of a pagan thing, AFAIK, and not associated with Satan.
More importantly, paedophilia itself. Is that a Satanic thing? Are all Satanists paedophiles? Is it part of the religion, or is that just made up?
Paganism was slandered as satanic by the Catholic Church in their path to world dominance. Any local deities they couldn't obliterate they subsumed as "saints." But the entire iconography of prechristian European paganism was painted as evil in their war. As a result, neopaganism tends to seem very made-up because it was, from whole cloth, with very scant information to inform the practitioners.

