Satanists

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The hospital where I work still has Satanism as one of the questions when psychologically assessing adolescents and I don't think I have had any positive responses in the past fifteen years. Satanism is long out of fashion in terms of adolescent rebellion, at least where I live. Adolescents are currently focused on gender issues. Bisexuality, particularly among females, was popular but now it has evolved into transgender, polyamorous, gender fluid, etcetera. Ironically one of the perceived aspects of Satanism, killing animals, is still a good predictor of psychopathology. Torturing and disemboweling the family dog is taken very seriously.

Ironically one of the perceived aspects of Satanism, killing animals, is Christianity little more than 2,000 years ago, but really scary today.