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The New Satanists

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I am particularly drawn to books, about these issues, that are reasonably objective and well researched. I consider THE NEW SATANISTS to be such a book. Too many people tend to fear this subject, or are affected by it personally, and therefore do not write about it in a logical manner. Ms. Blood has admirably achieved that objective. She has her vocal detractors - particularly those who have the most to lose, should her book be taken seriously. This appears to be a typical response to such works. I especially appreciate the way Ms. Blood spotlighted reports of criminal occult ritual abuse perpetrated against children at certain U.S. military day-care centers. I have been contacted by some of these growing-up victims, and fear that the harm done to some of their minds may reverberate through our society, for generations to come.

While barely scratching the surface of satanism and luciferianism in today's America, this book contains enough information to point one in the appropriate direction to do their own research and reach the undeniable conclusion that this is a real and imminent danger.

Yes, you will have to sift the data to determine which of the 2 camps it comes from:

There is a debunker camp which consists of "Christian" apologists who it is very easy to see have nothing what so ever to do with Christianity. Another faction of the debunker camp is people who seem to have a vested interest in scornfully denying any truth to the matter because of their own direct involvement. This ranges from trained professionals, so called experts, law enforcement, lay people, and elements of society that come from all walks of life and social status.

The other camp consists of the victims (most of who do not want to make money by sensationalizing their stories but who just want to live a normal, good life in obscurity) , the therapists, and law enforcement members who help them, theologians and other members of our society not deceived by the naysayers from the debunker camp.

One of the easiest ways to detect the difference between the two camps is through the approach and reporting of the datum, papers, testimonies and other available information.
The ones that have come to recognize the problem tend to report information in a scholarly way that even admits possibility of error in the data while approaching the research without preconceived results in mind.
The debunkers use adamancy, blanket statements, scorn, ridicule and absolute denial that there is ever any case where any of the perpetuation of ritual evil exists. They use phraseology such as `witch hunt', equate a reports to aliens landing, and attempt to categorize reports of ritual evil as `hysterical' or `panic' invented by paranoid or unstable minds, and claims that there is `no evidence'.

There is a strong propensity in "good" people to not want to easily believe that this kind of thing is real and true. The fact that this is practiced across the country and in almost every community is very difficult to accept because by admitting that satanism is probably practiced in their own neighborhood shakes one's comfortable little world. It creates a situation where an individual must critically analyze everything and no longer accept even what they see in the media as truth without confirming and thinking for themselves. It also forces the individual "good" person to challenge whether they are truly good while gleefully hiding that there is no evil by self imposed ignorance.

The mere fact that research, analysis and critical thought is more difficult than being told what to think is why most "good" people don't do it. Our society fosters mental laziness which in turn plays directly into the hands of those who would perpetuate ritual evil and manipulate public opinion to the contrary.

Compelling, credible evidence and information is out there for anyone who has the stomach to look. From long lists of directly related motives for convictions, witness and victim testimony, even testimony from those who began to detest what they had become and turned away from evil, there is a vast amount of data and proof available.

Remember, just as a person who professes to be good and follow God is to delight and further the kingdom of God through kindness, love and truth and perpetuating acts of good; a person who is evil will delight in perpetuating acts of evil and lies to subvert the world around them to evil while trying to maintain the appearance of good - because if the openly looked and acted evil then they would immediately be identified with the criminal activity that that is consistent with the desire to spread evil.

Written at the height of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) panic, this is a badly researched, emotionally written potboiler that has been subsequently discredited. Publisher Avon Books is unlikely to release the book, because subsequent legal action by various parties showed the book for the sensationalist, hollow mess that it is.

Blood appeared in the mid 1980s in the anti-cult scene claiming to have been brianwashed by the Temple of Set, a legitimate U.S. based law-abiding new religion. Having studied religious Satanism subcultures for five years (including over 12 000 pages of documents not yet public), her conclusions are not supported by the wider evidence. Her claims of neo-nazism; Holocaust fascination; lack of study of Enlightenment philosophers (John Locke, David Hume); and attacks of anti-semitism against Dr. Stephen Edred Flowers and Dr. Michael Aquino are incorrect when T-S doctrines and literature is actually studied. Blood cites no evidence, no verifiable footnotes, no objective material to support her wild claims. Subsequent to an out-of-court settlement with Dr. Aquino and T-S between Blood and her publishing company (Avon Books), the book was not promoted and has since virtually disappeared from the shelves. Blood omits her own background and reasons for leaving T-S in 1979, or how she got her secondhand and highly distorted information on the organisation.

The rest of Blood's book is filled with information on cases that have little to do with legitimate U.S. religious institutions. She cites Matamaros and other cases that are irrelevant and that were jumbled together in an attempt to show a widespread underground conspiracy. These claims have since been revealed by social theorists, academics, law enforcement officials, and medical practitioners to be delusional fantasies foisted on a public unprepared at the time for the power of hyper-real tabloid television.

Clearly, a book to avoid.

I thought that this book was informative and well written. A good book to have in any Religious Study Library. I certainly have this in my Library, and don't mind recommending it at all.

Ms. Blood did an excellent job describing various ritual abuse cases. A frivolous lawsuit was waged against her and the publishing company but that is to be expected when one is exposing satanic cult activity. I suggest the readers do a search on the web regarding the names in the book [mentioned in reviews above], and you will discover the detailed documentation regarding one of the cult leaders she writes about.

I will stand by my first comments written about Ms. Blood's book, The New Satanists. The reviewer from Ohio failed to mention the Matamoros, Mexico murders, involving the abduction and Satanic ritual murder of a college student visiting Brownsville, Texas. Ms. Blood mentioned this incident in her book: It is solid, and well known evidence, regardless of statements by any FBI studies..

There also is other evidence: The Satanic ritual murder of a DEA agent operating in Mexico just across the California border several years ago.

In January 1995, the body of a woman was found outside of El Paso, Texas: cut into 4 pieces and painted different colors. It is doubtful that the El Paso police even know where to start an investigation on this murder; which, from information Ms. Blood states, has a 99% chance of being the result of a Satanic ritual. One has to know the dynamics and goals of Satanic rituals to recognize the crime(s). Any former Satanic cult member will tell you that victims are chosen at random, as Ms. Blood alluded to. The only motive is the victim was used for ritual purposes. The police must first admit that such cults exist before they can even recognize that motive and understand the dynamics behind them. Ms. Blood's book would be highly beneficail in doing that.

The tactics used by Satanic cults are almost identical to those used by the German SS, a very Satanic oriented institution. Ms. Blood devotes chapters to this phenomenon: The key is the use of extrmemely cruel vengeance with exceptional violence. Satanic apologists continually fail to point this out, as Ms. Blood chose to do. Kudos to Ms. Blood for that.

Ms. Blood's book describes some of the purposes of such rituals. Restated: I believe this book should be read at all law enforcement schools. It is only too evident, from my own experience, and from the lack of investigations into murders such as I described above, that American law enforcement is abosutely ignorant of Satanic ritual abuse and a! ssociated cult related crimes.

An excellent book if you are interested in learning about the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) moral panic that started in 1980 with the arrival of the novel (presented as a documentary) called "Michelle Remembers." By the mid 1990s, the steam had started to run out of the panic when a decade and a half of dedicated searches by police officers had turned up no evidence of SRA.

When recovered memory therapy -- the basis of essentially all of the SRA memories -- was shown to be totally unreliable, the moral panic collapsed.

But if you are interested in the reality of child abuse, this book is devoid of useful material; it is just a distraction from the abuse that really exists. I have rated it with one star on this basis.

As a law enforcement officer quoted in the book- I can tell you this is a factual book. I have been investigating ritualistic and satanic crimes for nearly 20 years and its real, I've investigated and made arrests from drugs, to animal mutilation to murder. I have to deal in facts and so does this book.

Ms. Blood has written a scary account of the occult crime that occurs just under the surface of American life. While mis-labeled or ignored, these crimes happen and Ms. Blood pulls the acts of satanists to the surface. This book is a good warning for those who are ready to dismiss everything that has satanic undertones.

"Is it not those inside the Church whom you are to judge?" someone once asked and one wishes Linda Blood had followed that philosophy.
The New Satanists professes to be a book authored by a former cult member revealing the systematic abuse and torture rampant in modern Satanist circles . Of all things, this happens to be the age-old fable Satanism heralded by Christianity.
The front cover screams "well-researched" and the back cover promises numbers and proof. Sadly the reader finds little of either. In fact, The New Satanists manages to perpetuate one tired cliche after the other in an exposé style of narrative that would feel right at home on your average tabloid's front page. The old and tired cliches of equating Satanism with horror, death, abuse and racism are given another airing in the course of the 240-odd pages. Furthermore, the author, conveniently glosses over the nature of modern Satanism, its rejection of the concepts attributed to Luciferian Satanism and how most modern Satanists are persons of above-average education and intellect.
The sorry and old attempt at drawing a line between modern Satanism and ritual abuse might have been popular in Sixteenth Century France but is of little consequence today.
While Linda Blood might disagree, the reader too has the right to demand proof. Where is the foot-note? Where is the empirical datum? How about the photograph or the corroborated evidence?
Furthermore, in a day and age when the conflicted sadism of religions of the more popular variety has manifested itself unto the consciousness of the population, it is difficult to read a book claiming a vast Satanic underground is inflicting pain everywhere when your average nightly news will reveal far worse emanating from your neighbourhood institution.
In her rush to define Satan (see page 33) as something suited to her book, Linda Blood neglects to remember that the difference between a cult and a religion is in the number of adherents to one and the only wide-spread stories of ritual abuse seem to hail these days from the enemies, and not the supporters, of the new Satanism.