Consider the Massachusetts \u201csatanic preschool\u201d trials.<\/p>\n
Here, \u201cthe possibility of satanic cult activity\u201d was reified.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say that local secular \u00a0therapists were talking to themselves about how \u201ccreepy\u201d those Christian preschools were. \u00a0Was there not a problem with their faithChristian<\/sup>, as opposed to our university-trained faithUnChristian<\/sup>?<\/p>\n Then the serpent joined their conversation, speaking through the mouths of children, telling them exactly what they already suspected.<\/p>\n The therapist\u2019s \u201cmetaphorical\u201d truths became \u201cempirically\u201d true.<\/p>\n How could the children\u2019s claims be \u201cmetaphorically\u201d true?<\/p>\n All families feel vulnerable to external forces.\u00a0 What external force is more immediate than that little preschool down the street?\u00a0 Parents never really know what is going on behind those closed doors. So their anxiety was written all over their faces when their child causally mentioned, while they read the New York Times on one fine churchless Sunday morning, that her preschool teacher touched her lips with a hypergalactic space probe.<\/p>\n The serpent converted the metaphorical truth of the therapists into an empirical truth.<\/p>\n Welcome to MA: First in Witch-hunts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consider the Massachusetts \u201csatanic preschool\u201d trials. Here, \u201cthe possibility of satanic cult activity\u201d was reified. Let\u2019s say that local secular \u00a0therapists were talking to themselves about how \u201ccreepy\u201d those Christian preschools were. \u00a0Was there not a problem with their faithChristian, as opposed to our university-trained faithUnChristian? Then the serpent joined their conversation, speaking through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n