Word: satanic
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...gentile: there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what is permitted or forbidden. As in his previous books and plays, Polish-born Author Singer delights in superstitious trappings -dybbuks, devils and such imps of Satan as the foul Dog of Egypt, who struggles with the Hound of Heaven for Yasha's soul. But there is little mystical murkiness in Singer's writing: it has a clean and sun-washed optimism, a sense of human uncertainty in the face of divine certainty, which Jewish Philosopher Martin...
...used to be a hilly peninsula almost completely surrounded by water, has survived countless faceliftings without changing much. As Cotton Mather wrote: "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...
...Death of Satan. Poet Ronald Duncan tells a Shavian tale about a nervous Devil who feels that things are going too well in Hell and dispatches Don Juan to earth to find out why. The play's whet-stoned humor makes up for an inadequate production...
With whetstoned humor, but marred by too many obvious jokes and an inadequate production, the play leads Don Juan back to Hell, where Satan is in bed sick at heart, cursing his doctor ("that damned Faustus with his ridiculous penicillin"). When Don Juan reports that men on earth "have freed themselves of belief," Satan dies. The moral is obvious but far from negligible: without God, there can be no Devil...
...road to Damascus was simply an attack of the disease. The symptoms are typical-the light, the falling, the temporary blindness. Supporters of this hypothesis point to Paul's mysterious reference (II Corinthians 12:7-9) to his suffering from a "thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan," and this significantly follows a passage in which he tells of a man (usually taken to be himself) who "was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." This neat theory has one important drawback, however: if the illness...