Hell on Earth

"Is Satan already at work?"

Many fundamentalist Christians believe in the conspiracy myth that secret satanic circles are carrying out clandestine Black Masses involving ritual child abuse. Their diabolical goal would be to establish a new world order that contradicts God’s plan – promoting abortion, the spread of homosexuality, and other sinful and ‘deviant’ practices. Why? To transform the world into a living ‘hell.’ Once evil reigns, there would be no more room for moral values, let alone for the pure beauty of Christianity. However, those who believe in this myth are not blessed: the result is rather hysteria and paranoia, as the Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed.