The 26 Weirdest Moral Panics Ever

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The 26 Weirdest Moral Panics Ever

Get on the Internet and you'll see its denizens doing the one thing they thrive on: Raging out of control of the most insignificant things imaginable. Of course, there is some precedent to this. It's not as if freaking out over dumb stuff is restricted solely to the Internet.

To help illustrate this, we formed a mob with AuntieMeme to present to you the most ridiculous moral panics in the history of the universe.

Entry by AM Smiley

The Catholic Church opposed street lights. In 1831, Pope Gregory XVI even banned gas lighting in Papal states. The church argued that God very clearly

Entry by AM Smiley

In 2003, Oprah Winfrey caused parental panic over colored lipstick. According to a guest on her show, teens across the country were having rainbow pa

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In 1942, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia siezed New York's pinball machines LaGuardia's goons brought in more than 000 on the first day, and newsreel crews f

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11th century reformers thought grammar was the tool of the devil. St. Peter Damian claimed that scholarship and philosophy were evil, adding that ThE

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In the 1500s, Pope Paul IV decided the marble statues at the Vatican were too naked, SO he had marble and plaster fig leaves added, to cover their pen

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People thought the Post Office would ruin women. CEMTLEMEN NTL13V: TIIS wvaNDOW. SOLD HERE GTAMPS SOLD HE FOR LADLES UNDER EXOLUSIVELY. SI IN sUMS EXC

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