Word: satanic
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...back to France. After a brief stint as bishop of Tulle, he was appointed head of a missionary order, the Fathers of the Holy Spirit. When the order's general assembly voted a series of reforms, Lefebvre resigned, charging that "democratization" of the church was the work of Satan. Six years ago he founded a seminary at Econe, Switzerland, dedicated to the training of traditionalist priests who would function as though Vatican II had never taken place...
...grounds for dis ease. With rare exceptions, however, man through the ages has been instinctively entomophobic, or afraid of insects. Not for nothing did the ancient Israelites give Beelzebub, or Satan, the title of "Lord of the Flies...
...world was at hand, but before this, the Second Coming of Christ would occur. We were also told that the person who had brought these new truths to the world was Sun Myung Moon, a Korean. When I wanted to leave, I was told that Satan would try to pull me away from God because I had been chosen to build the kingdom of heaven. I felt that someone had placed a psychological bomb on my head, and if I left it would explode...
...Council of Love is a religious farce. But the Christian satire merely provides a vehicle for Oskar Panizza to raise questions about the moralities of love and sex. Shades of evil like Lucifer, Satan or the Leviathan don't figure in this play, the concept takes on the simple form of the devil. God might as well go by the name of The Father, it's plenty descriptive and doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing...
...coed rejects the Catholic verities and asserts there is no difference between good and evil, "that all values are subject only to one's personal preference." The degree to which each person is demonically possessed differs. Martin is careful, however, to only suggest reasons for possession; he maintains that Satan's actual choice of victims is a mystery, tied in with predestination...