Word: satanic
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This is incredible. It seems Simmons’ (or Witz’s) real accomplishment was getting Gentiles to believe that he was actually some Satan-worshipping lunatic. Think KISS stands for “Knight In Satan’s Service?” It actually stands for “Kosher Israeli Scams Suckers...
That November, radical supporters seized the American embassy, provoking a 444-day confrontation with the "Great Satan" over 52 hostages. But Khomeini never was able to reconcile the widely divergent forces in his revolution. Top aides fled into exile or were executed, and thousands of other Iranians were imprisoned or killed. Iran became a deeply divided country and remains so today. Despite this, to Khomeini's neighbors in the Arab world the Ayatullah's revolution serves as a historical beacon...
...PRAISE US, WE WILL MOURN. This was an official slogan--in Iran, as in America, graffiti are the work of miscreants, but in Iran the miscreants run the country--and it was an unintentionally revealing one: the mullahs are terrified of better relations with the U.S. Without the Great Satan, they have no excuse for, and no way to divert attention from, the dreadful brutality of their rule. A wicked thought occurred to me at the time, and recurred last week, as the Bush Administration continued its foolish refusal to meet with the North Koreans...
...PRAISE US, WE WILL MOURN. This was an official slogan - in Iran, as in America, graffiti are the work of miscreants, but in Iran the miscreants run the country - and it was an unintentionally revealing one: the mullahs are terrified of better relations with the U.S. Without the Great Satan, they have no excuse for, and no way to divert attention from, the dreadful brutality of their rule. A wicked thought occurred to me at the time, and recurred last week, as the Bush Administration continued its foolish refusal to meet with the North Koreans...
...truth about evil that needs attention now is its shallow, deadly, fungus quality. Nice people--especially in a tiny, multicultural world in which different civilizations inhabit different centuries--are often moved to evil deeds, like blowing up the Other. Don't bother demonizing people as being inherently evil (as Satan is evil). That's not how it works. Opportunistic evil passes like an electric current through the world and through people, or wanders like an infection that takes up residence in individuals or cultures from time to time...