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Some [[Moral Guardians]] are so paranoid that they'll [[Windmill Political|attack the most ridiculous things]], or [[Demonization|will attack them in the most ridiculous ways possible]]. Essentially, they use [[Insane Troll Logic]] to prove that something is [[The New Rock and Roll]]. There are a few favorite methods used:
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And finally, some of them ''[[Demonization|just make crap up]]'', because their claims that such-and-such is an evil symbol of so-and-so has ''no'' historical basis whatsoever.
Expect a lot of [[Did Not Do the Research]] (especially [[You Fail Logic Forever]]), [[Dan Browned]], [[Insane Troll Logic]], [[Media Research Failure]], and [[Critical Research Failure]] among these people (many of whom believe that [[Hollywood Satanism]] is [[Truth in Television]]).
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' contains "witches". Centuries ago, "witch" strictly meant someone who made a [[Deal with the Devil]]; therefore, even though the modern connotation of "witch" is simply "one who can do magic" and ''has nothing to do with Satanic origins'', the magic must be Satanic and encouraging kids to pursue the same! The sad thing is that even a half-close reading of the series shows many parallels with Christian doctrine and the Gospels, especially by ''[[Harry Potter and
** Not to mention that {{spoiler|[[Fan Nickname|Quirrellmort]]}} (Voldemort in the movie) says "There is no good or evil; there is only power, and those too weak to seek it." Horrible philosophy? Yes. But this is ''[[Complete Monster|Voldemort]]''.
** It's probably worth noting that some of the accusations that ''Harry Potter'' was turning kids on to witchcraft came from an ''[[The Onion|Onion]]'' [https://
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' has actually been banned in some Christian school libraries because it's supposedly Satanic. Never mind its obvious Christian allegories, and ''never mind'' that Aslan ''is literally Jesus.''
** It ought be noted that, as with [[Harry Potter|Mr. Potter]] above, [[The Fundamentalist|fundies]] also hated ''Narnia'' because it mentioned magic. Making it quite obvious to everyone that apparently every fundie ever skipped the day that symbolism was taught in Language Arts class.
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* [[Michael Jackson]] tried to pre-empt this when he made the video for "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]" by adding a disclaimer (ghostwritten by John Landis on Jackson's behalf) stating that the contents of the video do not in any way reflect his religious beliefs (Jackson was a devout Jehovah's Witness at the time, having written articles for their official literature). The Jehovah's Witnesses still took umbrage which eventually resulted in Jackson leaving the group.
* Some Christian groups gave their hatred towards disco a more fire-and-brimstone twist by labelling the dance trend under the backronym '''D'''ancing '''I'''n '''S'''atan's '''CO'''mpany as a way to condemn the hedonism disco supposedly glorifies. Then again, people have gone burned out by the dance craze by the end of the 70s anyway.
* The hip-hop group [[Three 6 Mafia]] was, at least for a time, the butt of controversy from religious groups and conspiracy theorists alike–the group's name itself is a [[What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?|thinly-veiled reference]] to the [[Number of the Beast]] in keeping with their image as a [[Horrorcore]] group (at least until they shifted to the more mainstream [[Glam Rap|"ringtone rap"]] sound in their later albums); this bit back on them in the song "Stay Fly" where a sample from the Willie Hutch song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cRaYMlJmQ "Tell Me Why Has Our Love Turned Cold"] was [[Mondegreen|misinterpreted]] as "Lucifer, you're my king, you're my father" instead of "you're my pride, you're my king, you're my father", as if the Three-Six was indeed [[Rock Me, Asmodeus|singing praises to the devil]].
=== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ===
* Thousands of years of scientific advancements and cultural heritage by the Maya were [https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/11/maya-codices-burned-by-the-inquisition-in-1562/ destroyed] by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century, under the false belief that the codices and tomes the indigenous tribes kept contained [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diego-de-Landa “nothing in which there was not to be seen superstition and lies of the devil”].
** Ditto with the subjugation the Sámi people faced from Nordic missionaries. In 1609, King Christian IV of Denmark wrote that the Sámi were heathen sorcerers skilled in magic and demonic sorcery, and as such no mercy was to be spared when it comes to such "occult" beliefs. Such persecution against Sámi religious beliefs were alluded to in ''[[Frozen II]]'', whose Northuldra tribe was used as an allegory for tribal discrimination.
* Heck, even ''[[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] himself'' was accused of practising demonic acts as told in [https://www.bibleref.com/Matthew/12/Matthew-12-24.html Matthew 12:22-37], where the Pharisees accused Jesus of performing sorcery by the power of Beelzebub (yes, [[Queen|that]] Beelzebub) as he drove demons off a blind and mute man who was also healed of his condition. Naturally, Jesus did not take kindly to such a spurious accusation and left a stern reply rebuking their claims.
===[[Sports]]===
* Former Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher was the subject of conspiracy theories in some automotive enthusiast circles as having made a [https://www.reddit.com/r/OccultConspiracy/comments/yag5zm/did_michael_schumacher_sign_a_deal_with_the_devil/ Faustian pact with the devil] which accounted for his dominant career during his heyday; an auto magazine in the Philippines discussed this in the mid-2000s and debunked said claims, dismissing whatever deal Schumi had with Satan and chalked it up to him being just good with the sport.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===▼
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''—Certain people have claimed that the game contains [[Critical Research Failure|"authentic"]] occult rituals and spells. The immortal [[Jack Chick]] did a whole tract, the [[Snark Bait|infamous]] "Dark Dungeons", about fantasy gaming being a gateway to [[Satan]]. This is in spite of the fact that [[Gary Gygax]] [[Offending the Creator's Own|was himself a Christian]]—you'd think portraying demons and devils as bad guys, and angels as good guys, would be an obvious enough clue of his actual stance.▼
* This has caused other game companies (like ''[[Rifts]]'' publisher Palladium Books) to place a disclaimer in all their books stating that their books are works of fiction and they don't condone the supernatural or occultism.▼
* Worth mentioning is the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' [[Hate Dumb]]. It has been associated with everything from pagan rituals to tarot cards.▼
** Technically speaking, you can make a Tarot deck out of Magic cards. Or a normal 52 card playing deck. Or any other deck of any other kind you might ever want.▼
** For that matter, Tarot cards were originally storytelling cards, with no ties to anything remotely magical. Then some people start using them as tools of divination, and suddenly the cards are evil by association and any actual storytelling deck is suspect. Go figure.▼
* While not as common as the other examples, the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' trading card game and associated anime franchise was [https://web.archive.org/web/20030524060035/http://www.studytoanswer.net/contemporary/yugioh.html accused] by fundamentalist Christian groups for encouraging satanic practices, owing to the franchise's use of ancient Egyptian mythology and themes which are perceived by the fundie crowd as "occult". One Filipino redditor [https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/4zz9ns/lahat_nalang_demonic/ recalled] in a comment on how he recalled seeing ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' cards being burned after a flag ceremony at an elementary school he attended (likely an Evangelical or Catholic school) owing to the teachers' association of the franchise with occultism.
=== [[Video Games]] ===▼
* ''[[Pokémon]]''—accused of being Satanic for various reasons. Two ridiculous examples that stand out is the accusation that the -mon suffix stands for "demon"<ref>It stands for "monster" in this series. This confusion is more sensible than the others, because ''Pokémon'' shares a genre with ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''.</ref> or that the card game is a "stepping stone" to ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' (see above). That the [http://www.theescapist.com/pokemon11.htm Pope approves of ''Pokémon''] does not necessarily help, as many fundamentalist Protestant sects consider him to be the Anti-Christ.▼
** Arabic countries [[Banned in China|banned the game]] due to it containing a six-pointed star—because a six-pointed star was ''obviously'' stealth Jewish/Israeli propaganda. More ridiculously, it's been claimed that "Pikachu" means "be a Jew," or worse, "stronger than God" in Latin America. (The truth is much more [[Tastes Like Diabetes|benign and cutesy]]. The name is based on a Japanese onomatopoeia, coming out to roughly "Sparklesqueak" in English. Alternatively, it's named after the small fuzzy animal known as a pika. Or it could be both; they [[Pungeon Master|do love their puns]] in Japan, after all.)▼
** Don't forget the flap over [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512035126/http://pokegym.net/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=45060 Koga's Ninja Trick], which shows a manji. What's so bad about a manji? Well, it looks an awful lot like a [[Those Wacky Nazis|swastika]]. Some people who [[Did Not Do the Research]] thought it meant ''Pokémon'' was encouraging Nazism, because after all, Japan and Germany are joined at the hip.▼
** A few distinct Pokémon have been subject to criticism from paranoid watchers. The Pokémon Houndoom has been accused of representing Satanism, since it is characterized as a demon dog with horns and a barbed tail.▼
** Some people criticized a Pokémon card showing a Registeel raising its arm. Apparently, it resembled a Nazi salute. To the less paranoid, it just looks like it's raising its arm.▼
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907135919/http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/10/01/pokemon-the-yellow-peril.aspx Either the most psychotic Moral Guardian ever, or the world's greatest satirical blogger.]▼
*** [[Critical Research Failure|Even worse]], [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|she mixes up the terms]] [[Anime]] and '''[[Hentai]]'''.▼
**** ''[[Serial Escalation|Even wore than that]],'' her description of the games (and the "[[Did Not Do the Research|Poke-men]]" themselves) may make you wonder whether you and she are talking about the same game. For starters, she [[Blind Idiot Translation|terribly mistranslated Pikachu's name.]] She goes on to say that Metapod is "one of the rarest and most powerful Pokemons." Not only is it of course a [[Com Mons|Com Mon]], the only move a wild Metapod knows is Harden. Uri Geller, she says, paid for Alakazam to be added, and Jigglypuff advocates drugs, gay sex, and Liberalism.▼
**** Worst of all, she blames the mass epilepsy on Pikachu evolving, not blowing up some particularly nasty missiles.▼
*** [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And she also promotes the]] [[Chick Tracts]].▼
*** Really, how could this ''not'' be a parody? There's a mistake is just about every paragraph. She calls Winnie the Pooh "all-American" when he is a ''British'' character, misspells the name ''Superman'', refers to Pikachu as a "bear" when he is not, and seems to think [[Japan Takes Over the World|anything Japanese is evil]]. More than anything else, however, it's mind-boggling that anyone who burned comic books and tried to control what people enjoyed [[People's Republic of Tyranny|would use the word ''freedom'' with a straight face]].▼
** And then there's also creationists who accuse ''Pokémon'' of being anti-Christian because the Pokémon "evolve". Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the franchise will immediately recognize that [[Hollywood Evolution|the "evolution" portrayed in the series]] has absolutely nothing to do with the actual theory of evolution.▼
* You could call [[Poe's Law]] on this one, but check out these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--DPLpDEmo two] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxfXQtnHGTo videos] for the hidden meanings someone has claimed to find in ''[[Legacy of Kain]]''.▼
* There's no question that the original ''[[Doom]]'' eventually takes the player to Hell. Enemies are explicitly referred to as demons. Satanic imagery is rampant. However... the player is tasked with ''destroying'' these images and agents of evil with a combination of [[More Dakka]] and the [[Trope Namer]] [[BFG]], yet the game has been accused of ''supporting'' the forces of Hell instead of opposing them. id Software level designer Sandy Petersen, who happened to be a practising Latter-Day Saint, saw no conflict between his faith and the use of satanic imagery in the games, stating "I have no problems with the demons in the game. They're just cartoons. And, anyway, they're the bad guys." ▼
=== [[Western Animation]] ===▼
* ''[[Care Bears]]''. One particularly ridiculous example is when the movie was accused of promoting the occult because a character used magic from a talking spellbook. You'd think the fact that ''the spellbook was the villain'' would have given them a clue, but apparently not.▼
* ''[[Rainbow Brite]]''—Accused of being Satanic by Texe Marrs. Why? Because it contained ''stars'' and ''rainbows!'' According to Marrs's logic, if someone who isn't God is throwing around rainbows, that person is definitely promoting Satanism. Surprisingly he didn't seize upon two (actually, three) connections that would have halfway made sense. The star is an ancient symbol of Islam (or, alternately, could be mistaken for the pentagram), while the rainbow is, of course, one of the most famous symbols of gay pride. So, you could say that Rainbow Brite is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|satanic Islamist-homosexual]]!▼
** Texe Marrs really lives and dies by this trope. In ''Circle of Intrigue'', Texe quotes Hermes Trismegistus as saying "God is a circle." He then reasons that, since, of course, Hermes was obviously a Satanist, Hermes's god is Satan. Therefore, by his logic, ''anything'' that uses a circle as a symbol is Satanic. He then goes on to list examples of things that have circles in their logos, coats of arms, or general shape.▼
* ''[[The Year Without a Santa Claus]]''—pulled from TV in some places because Heat Miser was deemed "Satanic." Especially absurd because he looked much more like a clown than like a devil.▼
* Some broadcasters worry about showing the 1942 Academy Award-winning Disney cartoon ''[[Der Fuehrer's Face]]'' because [[No Swastikas|it is rife with swastikas and other Nazi imagery]]. NOTE: The cartoon is ''anti-Nazi'', and has to show such things precisely so it can condemn them. But, [[Poe's Law|you know...]]▼
* Parodic (if eerily realistic-looking) complaints about ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' can be found; the usual themes are that the show is anti-Christian because it includes magic, shows animals as sapient when only humans are made in the image of God, and the fact that [[Insane Troll Logic|the name of the show's producer is]] Lauren ''[[Faust]]'', so [[Insane Troll Logic|she obviously must have a Satanic agenda]]. A good example is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616212302/http://shelleytherepublican.com/2012/01/28/my-little-pony-friendship-is-satanic.aspx here].▼
** Not to mention one blogger that accused the show of being racist (due to the two dark-colored pony guards at the foot of Celestia's throne), Rainbow Dash being a lesbian (simply because of her mane and her love of athletics) and saying that books won't get you anywhere in life and you need authority figures to tell you how to be happy (completely ignoring the fact that Twilight Sparkle's book knowledge more often than not gives vital information to the characters, not to mention that in the beginning of the show she was a bibliophilic shut-in that didn't like to interact with other ponies). Fortunately, Lauren found out about the blog post and fired back with one that addressed every concern and even criticized the original poster.▼
* [[Disney]]'s use of magic as a recurring plot element in their films and series prompted scrutiny from conservatives and fundamentalist groups for reasons similar to ''Harry Potter''. The company logo in particular was seen as hiding a "[[Number of the Beast|666]]" reference, never mind the fact that cursive writing in general uses looping elements which a determined conspiracist could draw up a triple-six symbol from a mile away despite cursive writing not having anything to do with occultism.▼
=== Other/Multiple ===
* According to [http://www.demonbuster.com this parody website], everything from candles to paisley prints contains demons waiting to pounce on you. Paisleys, you see, are evil because 1: the design was invented by those heathen Indians, 2: it looks like that heathen Pythagorean comma, and 3: it was printed on fabrics made from goat hair, and anything to do with goats is evil because goats represent Satan.
** The design originally
** From the website: "For those of you who demand to see a Scripture before you can believe something, there are NO Scriptures that say YOU do NOT have demons. That should settle it!"
*** If you need any more evidence of trolling, it also says: ''BOYCE and BOICE are two demons that interfere with any electronic equipment, i.e., phone, computer, printer, automobile. If something malfunctions, command these two demons to leave your equipment, in the name of Jesus. We get many emails saying this worked.''
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* There is one video by Muslim extremists that claim that Pepsi is pro-Israel. Why? Because Pepsi is an obvious acronym for Pay Every Penny to Save Israel.
** Ironically, Pepsi is ''less'' involved in Israel than Coca-Cola is, and neither one can be accused of conspiracy, just of doing business there or not.
* According to some fundamentalist Muslims, Coca-Cola's logo can be read as Arabic if it's inverted, and it says "No God, no Mecca." Although you have to squint ''a lot'' and do some seriously creative interpretation of the patterns
** Which means that some fundamentalist Christian out there believes that.
*** Fortunately, few of them can read Arabic.
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** The anti-Gates sentiment saw a resurgence in the 2020s due to his vaccination advocacy in relation to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], with those who bought into the conspiracy theories blaming the former Microsoft chairman for allegedly conspiring towards a New World Order.
* There is an urban legend that the word "picnic" derives from "pick a n*****" and was originally used to refer to a lynching with food and music for white spectators. [http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp Snopes dealt with this one...]
▲=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
▲* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''—Certain people have claimed that the game contains [[Critical Research Failure|"authentic"]] occult rituals and spells. The immortal [[Jack Chick]] did a whole tract, the [[Snark Bait|infamous]] "Dark Dungeons", about fantasy gaming being a gateway to [[Satan]]. This is in spite of the fact that [[Gary Gygax]] [[Offending the Creator's Own|was himself a Christian]]—you'd think portraying demons and devils as bad guys, and angels as good guys, would be an obvious enough clue of his actual stance.
▲* This has caused other game companies (like ''[[Rifts]]'' publisher Palladium Books) to place a disclaimer in all their books stating that their books are works of fiction and they don't condone the supernatural or occultism.
▲* Worth mentioning is the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' [[Hate Dumb]]. It has been associated with everything from pagan rituals to tarot cards.
▲** Technically speaking, you can make a Tarot deck out of Magic cards. Or a normal 52 card playing deck. Or any other deck of any other kind you might ever want.
▲** For that matter, Tarot cards were originally storytelling cards, with no ties to anything remotely magical. Then some people start using them as tools of divination, and suddenly the cards are evil by association and any actual storytelling deck is suspect. Go figure.
▲=== [[Video Games]] ===
▲* ''[[Pokémon]]''—accused of being Satanic for various reasons. Two ridiculous examples that stand out is the accusation that the -mon suffix stands for "demon"<ref>It stands for "monster" in this series. This confusion is more sensible than the others, because ''Pokémon'' shares a genre with ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''.</ref> or that the card game is a "stepping stone" to ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' (see above). That the [http://www.theescapist.com/pokemon11.htm Pope approves of ''Pokémon''] does not necessarily help, as many fundamentalist Protestant sects consider him to be the Anti-Christ.
▲** Arabic countries [[Banned in China|banned the game]] due to it containing a six-pointed star—because a six-pointed star was ''obviously'' stealth Jewish/Israeli propaganda. More ridiculously, it's been claimed that "Pikachu" means "be a Jew," or worse, "stronger than God" in Latin America. (The truth is much more [[Tastes Like Diabetes|benign and cutesy]]. The name is based on a Japanese onomatopoeia, coming out to roughly "Sparklesqueak" in English. Alternatively, it's named after the small fuzzy animal known as a pika. Or it could be both; they [[Pungeon Master|do love their puns]] in Japan, after all.)
▲** Don't forget the flap over [http://pokegym.net/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=45060 Koga's Ninja Trick], which shows a manji. What's so bad about a manji? Well, it looks an awful lot like a [[Those Wacky Nazis|swastika]]. Some people who [[Did Not Do the Research]] thought it meant ''Pokémon'' was encouraging Nazism, because after all, Japan and Germany are joined at the hip.
▲** A few distinct Pokémon have been subject to criticism from paranoid watchers. The Pokémon Houndoom has been accused of representing Satanism, since it is characterized as a demon dog with horns and a barbed tail.
▲** Some people criticized a Pokémon card showing a Registeel raising its arm. Apparently, it resembled a Nazi salute. To the less paranoid, it just looks like it's raising its arm.
▲** [http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/10/01/pokemon-the-yellow-peril.aspx Either the most psychotic Moral Guardian ever, or the world's greatest satirical blogger.]
▲*** [[Critical Research Failure|Even worse]], [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|she mixes up the terms]] [[Anime]] and '''[[Hentai]]'''.
▲**** ''[[Serial Escalation|Even wore than that]],'' her description of the games (and the "[[Did Not Do the Research|Poke-men]]" themselves) may make you wonder whether you and she are talking about the same game. For starters, she [[Blind Idiot Translation|terribly mistranslated Pikachu's name.]] She goes on to say that Metapod is "one of the rarest and most powerful Pokemons." Not only is it of course a [[Com Mons|Com Mon]], the only move a wild Metapod knows is Harden. Uri Geller, she says, paid for Alakazam to be added, and Jigglypuff advocates drugs, gay sex, and Liberalism.
▲**** Worst of all, she blames the mass epilepsy on Pikachu evolving, not blowing up some particularly nasty missiles.
▲*** [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And she also promotes the]] [[Chick Tracts]].
▲*** Really, how could this ''not'' be a parody? There's a mistake is just about every paragraph. She calls Winnie the Pooh "all-American" when he is a ''British'' character, misspells the name ''Superman'', refers to Pikachu as a "bear" when he is not, and seems to think [[Japan Takes Over the World|anything Japanese is evil]]. More than anything else, however, it's mind-boggling that anyone who burned comic books and tried to control what people enjoyed [[People's Republic of Tyranny|would use the word ''freedom'' with a straight face]].
▲** And then there's also creationists who accuse ''Pokémon'' of being anti-Christian because the Pokémon "evolve". Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the franchise will immediately recognize that [[Hollywood Evolution|the "evolution" portrayed in the series]] has absolutely nothing to do with the actual theory of evolution.
▲* You could call [[Poe's Law]] on this one, but check out these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--DPLpDEmo two] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxfXQtnHGTo videos] for the hidden meanings someone has claimed to find in ''[[Legacy of Kain]]''.
▲* There's no question that the original ''[[Doom]]'' eventually takes the player to Hell. Enemies are explicitly referred to as demons. Satanic imagery is rampant. However... the player is tasked with ''destroying'' these images and agents of evil with a combination of [[More Dakka]] and the [[Trope Namer]] [[BFG]], yet the game has been accused of ''supporting'' the forces of Hell instead of opposing them. id Software level designer Sandy Petersen, who happened to be a practising Latter-Day Saint, saw no conflict between his faith and the use of satanic imagery in the games, stating "I have no problems with the demons in the game. They're just cartoons. And, anyway, they're the bad guys."
▲=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* ''[[Care Bears]]''. One particularly ridiculous example is when the movie was accused of promoting the occult because a character used magic from a talking spellbook. You'd think the fact that ''the spellbook was the villain'' would have given them a clue, but apparently not.
▲* ''[[Rainbow Brite]]''—Accused of being Satanic by Texe Marrs. Why? Because it contained ''stars'' and ''rainbows!'' According to Marrs's logic, if someone who isn't God is throwing around rainbows, that person is definitely promoting Satanism. Surprisingly he didn't seize upon two (actually, three) connections that would have halfway made sense. The star is an ancient symbol of Islam (or, alternately, could be mistaken for the pentagram), while the rainbow is, of course, one of the most famous symbols of gay pride. So, you could say that Rainbow Brite is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|satanic Islamist-homosexual]]!
▲** Texe Marrs really lives and dies by this trope. In ''Circle of Intrigue'', Texe quotes Hermes Trismegistus as saying "God is a circle." He then reasons that, since, of course, Hermes was obviously a Satanist, Hermes's god is Satan. Therefore, by his logic, ''anything'' that uses a circle as a symbol is Satanic. He then goes on to list examples of things that have circles in their logos, coats of arms, or general shape.
▲* ''[[The Year Without a Santa Claus]]''—pulled from TV in some places because Heat Miser was deemed "Satanic." Especially absurd because he looked much more like a clown than like a devil.
▲* Some broadcasters worry about showing the 1942 Academy Award-winning Disney cartoon ''[[Der Fuehrer's Face]]'' because [[No Swastikas|it is rife with swastikas and other Nazi imagery]]. NOTE: The cartoon is ''anti-Nazi'', and has to show such things precisely so it can condemn them. But, [[Poe's Law|you know...]]
▲* Parodic (if eerily realistic-looking) complaints about ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' can be found; the usual themes are that the show is anti-Christian because it includes magic, shows animals as sapient when only humans are made in the image of God, and the fact that [[Insane Troll Logic|the name of the show's producer is]] Lauren ''[[Faust]]'', so [[Insane Troll Logic|she obviously must have a Satanic agenda]]. A good example is [http://shelleytherepublican.com/2012/01/28/my-little-pony-friendship-is-satanic.aspx here].
▲** Not to mention one blogger that accused the show of being racist (due to the two dark-colored pony guards at the foot of Celestia's throne), Rainbow Dash being a lesbian (simply because of her mane and her love of athletics) and saying that books won't get you anywhere in life and you need authority figures to tell you how to be happy (completely ignoring the fact that Twilight Sparkle's book knowledge more often than not gives vital information to the characters, not to mention that in the beginning of the show she was a bibliophilic shut-in that didn't like to interact with other ponies). Fortunately, Lauren found out about the blog post and fired back with one that addressed every concern and even criticized the original poster.
▲* [[Disney]]'s use of magic as a recurring plot element in their films and series prompted scrutiny from conservatives and fundamentalist groups for reasons similar to ''Harry Potter''. The company logo in particular was seen as hiding a "[[Number of the Beast|666]]" reference, never mind the fact that cursive writing in general uses looping elements which a determined conspiracist could draw up a triple-six symbol from a mile away despite cursive writing not having anything to do with occultism.
== Fictional Examples ==
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* In ''[[The Monument Mythos]]'' [[Alternate History]]/Analog Horror hybrid series, James Dean, [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman|the 37th President of the United States]], is likened to the Devil by the aptly named Anti Dean Association.
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/4zz9ns/lahat_nalang_demonic/ This webcomic] brutally roasted the "everyone/everything is Satanic" mentality by fundamentalists in the Philippines and those who bought into thieir Kool-aid.
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