After yesterday's post I started wondering about the Procter & Gamble logo and how the rumor of the company being satanists came about. It isn't clear how the rumor first started but the logo in question featured a moon and thirteen stars (for the original 13 colonies) and had been in use since the 1800s. In the 1980s the rumor started that the "man in the moon" represented a horned devil with the number 666 hidden within. The rumors also insisted that the companies CEO had appeared on various talk shows saying he was associated with and donated money to the Church of Satan,which was not true,think about it...how interesting would any CEO on a talk show be? Okay there may be a few exceptions but the key word is few. In 1991 they gave the moon a haircut and eventually dropped all the artwork for the letters P&G and won a $19.25 million lawsuit in 1995 against former competitor Amway for reinvigorating the satanist rumor.
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