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A Good, Old Fashioned, All-American Satanic Panic
That’s the beauty of a good Satanic Panic. Like all good conspiracy theories, all proof against it is really proof that it is real.
I wonder if somewhere within Proctor & Gamble someone who has been with the company long enough got a good chuckle out of the latest social media trend of Satanic Panic.
Oh yes, Proctor & Gamble of yesteryear, more specifically their Pampers brand of diapers, was getting the Satanic Panic treatment back in 1985 as if one of their cherub-faced mascots had rubbed their diaper-encased bottoms all over the prince of darkness himself like Lil Nas X has, to get the modern-day devil fear stoked back up.
LEAFLETS charging that the Procter & Gamble Company is an agent of Satan have recently surfaced throughout the New York metropolitan area and the company is starting a campaign to counteract the rumors. Among other things, the leaflets say that the company’s logo represents the Devil and the company’s profits are used to support the worship of Satan.
Yesterday, Procter & Gamble held a news conference to deny the stories, which it said prompted 5,600 calls last month and 4,000 calls so far this month to its headquarters in Cincinnati. Sixty percent of those calls were from New…
