# Remember That Geraldo Rivera Special On Satanism?

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**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-geraldo-rivera-special-on-satanism/927787 "2020-12-10T19:23:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-geraldo-rivera-special-on-satanism/927787/22 "2020-12-11T19:47:17Z")

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Satanist Leader: “Hail Satan, it is done. Well, thanks for coming, everyone. Brother Jason was kind enough to furnish this week’s food. It’s Chick-fil-A. I know, they’re on the Christian right, but darned if that chicken isn’t good. I think the Dark Lord would understand.”

(from Silicon Valley, season 1 episode 6.)

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-geraldo-rivera-special-on-satanism/927787/23 "2020-12-11T23:42:42Z")

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Most of the kids in the 80s and 90s who claimed they did it just said they did for shock value.

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-geraldo-rivera-special-on-satanism/927787/24 "2020-12-12T00:35:09Z")

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This.

And I‘ve got to wonder how often it applies to controversial religious statements through history.

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**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-geraldo-rivera-special-on-satanism/927787/25 "2020-12-12T03:00:47Z")

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Satanic Panic has evolved with the times. They call it Qanon now. Still the same old shit.

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