Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank are destroyed; his wife leaves him; and he is reduced ultimately to a skin sack of boils and a collection of rags...
When Clive Staples Lewis, 59, England's top amateur theologian, reread the psalms, he was bothered by the cursing. In 109, for instance, the psalmist prays that an ungodly man may rule over his enemy and that Satan may stand at his right hand, that his enemy's ""prayers be turned into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more...
Hose on Hell. The Witnesses' creed is based on what they regard as utter obedience to the Bible ("God's complete word of truth"). They accept the Biblical prophecy that Satan will be defeated in the cataclysm of Armageddon, followed by eternal life for the righteous. Other Christians share that belief, but sharply disagree with the Witnesses' assertion that, as the only true followers of the Bible, Witnesses alone will be saved...
...Rhymes with P. Preston's rapid-fire recitative, backed only by orchestral chords, is a heady showstopper. Weaving in and out among the townspeople, flipping his hands, posturing like a slicker, flicking his toes as if they were Satan's tail, he sows the seeds of Trouble...
...seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer not to God but to Satan...