Why are religious people so messed up?

Yeah certainly being in the metal scene gave me access to satanism, and yeah both appeal to dissafected youths, of which I once was one, now i am a dissafected elder

   What you "showed" was that you are incompetent to discuss the topic.  Did any of your links list even one case?  No.  They just listed the judgement calls of uncoordinated researchers who were too distant from any cases to read them properly.

So-called "Satanic Child Abuse" was mainly the product of a moral panic of the 1980's and 1990's propagated by certain psychotherapists, social workers, Christian fundamentalists and law enforcement officials and bears resemblances to the witch hunts of the last few centuries, although fortunately this time there were no burnings. While there have been a few cases of nutters abusing children with Satanic trappings, evidence of wider conspiracies have always proved non-existent while the inflammatory effect of claims fanned by 'hypno-regression' have been widely criticised. The fantastic web of devil worshippers who breed babies for sacrifice exists only in the minds of disturbed young women, and occasionally men. An investigation into such allegations by the British government for instance produced over two hundred reports, of which only three were substantiated and proved to be examples of pseudo-satanic, in which sexual abuse was the actual motivation and the rituals were incidental. In the United States, major allegations of Satanic ritual abuse occurred in the Kern County child abuse cases, McMartin preschool trial and the West Memphis 3, which garnered world-wide media coverage. It was eventually determined that no satanic abuse ever took place in these cases, due to false testimony and police misconduct. Ultimately it was not access to proof that was the issue. It was the lack of any.

A book I can personally recommend in connection with this scare is Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England, (1998) which is indeed an instance of well respected, co-ordinated research.


www.amazon.co.uk/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Contemporary-England/dp/0521629349/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=satanic+child+abuse&qid=1605620708&s=books&sr=1-6

for which the blurb is:

"Allegations of satanic child abuse became widespread in North America in the 1980s. Shortly afterwards, there were similar reports in Britain of sexual abuse, torture and murder, associated with worship of the Devil. Professor Jean La Fontaine, a senior British anthropologist, conducted a two year research project into these allegations, which found that they were without foundation. Her detailed analysis of a number of specific cases, and an extensive review of the literature, revealed no evidence of devil-worship. She concludes that the child witnesses come to believe that they are describing what actually happened to them, but that adults are manipulating the accusations. She draws parallels with classic instances of witchcraft accusations and witch-hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe, and shows that beneath the hysteria there is a social movement, which is fostered by a climate of social and economic insecurity. Persuasively argued, this is an authoritative and scholarly account of an emotive issue."

As others have pointed out this is all in stark contrast to the child abuse scandal which is still plaguing the church, featuring connivance and a conspiracy of silence which in some cases reached, and still reaches, to the top. 

As far as I remember she looked at as many cases which had been reported as she could discover and, critically, their outcomes. She had full and legitimate access to case records nationally. Her research involved interviewing and collating evidence from the key players in the myth; both those who promoted it and those who debunked it.

For anyone who is not a self-appointed expert, pages from this book explaining her methodology and range of research can be found here:

books.google.co.uk/books/about/Speak_of_the_Devil.html?id=JBxfvDeQdmoC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

I mention this title specifically as it is fine antidote to the 'survivor memoirs' and more credulous account of the phenomenon, many of which have been critically lacerated by professionals (EG Sinason's Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse)

I have already explained that LaFontaine researched far from a "few somewhat questionable examples" and so I have no idea why your advanced reading skills did not pick that up.

Here's another authoritative conclusion, again based on a wide appraisal, this time from law enforcement:

Kenneth Lanning published the definitive official FBI report on 'Satanic Crime' in 1992 ('Satanic, Occult, Ritualist Crime: A Law Enforcement Perspective'  The National Center for the Analysis of Violet Crime at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia) which reviewed all then known cases and concluded that:

"There are many children in the United States who, starting early in their lives, are severely psychologically, physically, and sexually traumatized by angry, sadistic parents or other adults. Such abuse, however, is not perpetrated only or primarily by satanists. The statistical odds are that such abusers are members of mainstream religions... After all the hype and hysteria is put aside, the realisation sets in that most satanic or Occult activity involves the commission of NO crimes and that which does, usually involves the commission of relatively minor crimes such as trespassing, vandalism , animal cruelty and petty thievery...  Until hard evidence is obtained and corroborated, the public should not be frightened into believing that babies are being bred and eaten, that 50,000 missing children are being murdered in human sacrifices, or that satanists are taking over America's day care centers or institutions "

www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/136592NCJRS.pdf

QED.

You seem to be making an argument from credulity for reasons which are more psychological, one suspects, than criminological. That's your prerogative. But unless you can substantiate the claim that the panic over Satanic Abuse has resulted from a wave of proof and thence successful prosecutions, moreover ones which have stood the test of time, then all we have as usual from you is just the usual sweeping opinion. And, as usual, you are welcome to it.

THERE WEREN'T ANY, or......THEY LIED!  

No, the ones who "found no evidence" lied, but you knew that already.

No more than I can prove God exists. 

I don't think of myself as a sad sack.  If you want to think of me as a sad sack that's your choice.