There is no sorcery. The child sacrifices are sick perversions, nothing more.
This is simply good old fashioned human evil. You can say it's spurred on by Satanic influence, but the laws of physics haven't changed, no one has been possessed and controlled against their will, things don't happen at point B because a child was sacrificed for a ritual at point A.
To put something mystical and magical on it turns the responsibility away from the ones doing it, and the ones acting as their enforcers.
Agreed. It’s plain old garden variety psychopathy. Linking to the occult is to glamorise it. Damaged people who throughout history are the tiny minority of predatory humans who bind together in their perversions and secret clubs, and turn everything to chaos for shits, giggles and kicks especially once they get power. (Alas, since more of them lust for wealth and power than regular folks, well, here we are...)
There is no sorcery. The child sacrifices are sick perversions, nothing more.
This is simply good old fashioned human evil. You can say it's spurred on by Satanic influence, but the laws of physics haven't changed, no one has been possessed and controlled against their will, things don't happen at point B because a child was sacrificed for a ritual at point A.
To put something mystical and magical on it turns the responsibility away from the ones doing it, and the ones acting as their enforcers.
I like the cut of your jib.
Agreed. It’s plain old garden variety psychopathy. Linking to the occult is to glamorise it. Damaged people who throughout history are the tiny minority of predatory humans who bind together in their perversions and secret clubs, and turn everything to chaos for shits, giggles and kicks especially once they get power. (Alas, since more of them lust for wealth and power than regular folks, well, here we are...)