Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Father Egbert Delaney believes that Satan is a woman. He told me as much and I think be ought to be made to resign. It's an insult to women," Miss Young says...
...tell him Satan is a man he'll think it an insult...
...Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) may see that she is beautiful, but how can black be beautiful if the standard of beauty is to be white, blond, fair? How can black be good if cleanliness (whiteness) is next to godliness, if Satan is the Prince of Darkness, if there are blackguards and blackmail, black thoughts and black deeds? To be in the dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images of whiteness can be terrible too, of course (the white whale, whited sepulchers, death on a pale horse...
...beard, became a familiar figure in Cairo. Gratified by the change, he observes: "An Israeli in Egypt is not considered today with the same curiosity I sensed a year ago, when people looked at you and seemed to ask, 'Are you on the side of the angels or Satan...
...Kung should not be condemned for the sin of inarticulateness. He disposes of Descartes, Hegel, Marx and others with remarkable self-assurance. Finally he comes face to face with his arch-villain, the Great Satan of Kung's world, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, the apostle of nihilism, stands for everything Kung fears: God is dead, there is no reality, everything is meaningless. Far from believing Kung's favorite quote of Einstein's, "God does not play dice," Nietzsche says, there is no God, there are no dice, there isn't even a game...