[Arachnid13]

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Originally Posted by Andyroo

It did. I collect 1980's "satanic panic" Christian books and three of my favorites are called Turmoil in the Toy Box, Turmoil in the Toy Box II, and Saturday Morning Mind Control. The author makes outrageous claims like Smurfs represent vampiric corpses, his daughter's troll doll would dance on its own, D&D figurines cried out in pain when he tossed them into a fire, and TMNT is a designed to brainwash the public into accepting the reptoids when they decide to take over the planet.

There's an entire chapter devoted to MoTU and how characters like Skeletor and Hordak (who are explicitly the villains) are designed to groom kids into accepting Satanism (the author really takes issue with Skeletor's Havok Staff) but also how He-Man and the whole concept of "Master of the Universe" is so children will reject Christ. He claims to have attended a a Church sermon where kids were playing with MoTU figures and one of the kids cried out, "Jesus isn't Master of the Universe, He-Man is!" The whole thing is equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

Gotta love that 80’s satanic panic