Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacrifice to Satan. In the crypt of the chapel at Tiffauges, he gathered alchemists from all over Europe. They staged satanic orgies, sacrificing one after another of the child singers on the altar while begging the four principal figures of demonology-Satan, Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch-to help them turn base metal into gold. In 1440 Gilles was arrested and tried for murder. Before he was hanged at the age of 36, he confessed that he had presided over the murders of 140 children...
...find the town a well. ("A miracle!" cried a bystander. Beamed Mr. White: "I believe that's what they're called here, yes.") On his heels came another friendly, omniscient stranger (James Gregory), all in black, making the same claims. Each accused the other of serving Satan, and confronted the townsfolk with a choice that might leave them with the Devil...
Cotton Mather said: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
...even the Egyptian embassy questions the Pasha's honesty. Syrian and Egyptian broadcasters have shouted "Traitor" and "Satan," denounced him as a stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
Graham preaches the doctrines of the Trinity, Incarnation, Redemption; he accepts the authority of the Scriptures, the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection and Second Coming of Christ; he acknowledges the existence of a personal Satan, the immortality of the soul, a heaven and hell beyond the grave, the necessity of personal repentance, of a personal Saviour. "So far, fine," says Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power...