Satan

The Intercept has published a feature about a woman who became the subject of a true-crime obsession during the Satanic Panic, arguing that the real story behind her case is darker than the sensational narratives that surrounded her. The piece reexamines how moral panic and media coverage shaped her life and reputation, and it is drawing attention among readers interested in wrongful accusations and cold cases.

A long-running philosophical challenge to religious believers is circulating online: if God controls Satan, God is complicit in evil, but if God cannot control Satan, He is neither all-powerful nor all-loving. The argument, a version of the classic problem of evil, is drawing replies from both atheists and theists debating free will, divine sovereignty and the existence of suffering.