This crazy video features an insane look back on the toys and cartoons of the 1980′s by a couple of confused evangelical Christians who see the Devil in every detail. Author Phil Phillips and Pastor Gary Greenwald would be just a couple of bumbling buffoons if their brand of humorless hysteria hadn’t been part of a bigger trend that lead to the “Satanic Panic” of that era — a time when hundreds of unsubstantiated cases of so-called Satanic ritual abuse were reported around the United States.<\/p>\n
The good people at i09<\/a> published a short version of this video. Here are some of their favorite bits:<\/p>\n • Dungeons & Dragons “game pieces” scream when you set them on fire!<\/em><\/p>\n • “It’s called necromology.”<\/p>\n • Darth looks “almost exactly” like the Norse god Odin<\/p>\n • Smurfs are blue with black lips… just like corpses.<\/p>\n • “There’s a form of witchcraft [in Star Wars] called ‘Obi witchcraft.’” Obi obi obi!<\/p>\n It’s all in good fun kids until you draw a direct line from a pastor obsessed with zombie Smurfs to the convictions of the West Memphis 3<\/a>. Be careful when you see the Devil that you do not see him in a mirror.<\/p>\n There is a sevenish minute version of this floating around on the net. Here is the the full 90 minutes plus:<\/p>\n