Word: satanic
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...need to believe is as dominant a factor in this so-called enlightened age of ours as it has ever been. To quote Anton La Vey, who spearheaded the contemporary Satan boom, "Barnum said that a sucker is born every minute; with today's population explosion, there are two born every minute." Your article on the psychics would indicate that indeed a third is born every minute: a parapsychologist...
JOHN M. KINCAID Minister of Information Church of Satan San Francisco...
...panels of the Apocalypse obey the conventions of medieval miniature painting: the schematic rocks and grass, the abstract wallpaper patterns in the sky. The artist, Hennequin of Bruges, actually based it on an illuminated manuscript. Yet the design of an episode like St. Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed Beast; the coiling rush and flutter of his peach-colored robe is full of an ecstatic energy that...
...number of priests reported receiving inquiries from people who believed themselves possessed. After seeing the film, two young Chicagoans required hospitalization. "They're way out in leftfield," said Dr. Louis Schlan, psychiatrist and medical director of Riveredge Hospital in Forest Park, Ill. "They see themselves possessed by Satan...
...interpreter used some phrases which, in their abbreviated forms, would fit nicely into a new Chinese calendar. The general idea was that "Before the Revolution" (B.R.) everything in China was worse than Satan's lair but "After the Revolution" (A.R.) Mao Tse-Tung made everything beautiful for the previously downtrodden, starving and homeless Chinese peasantry...