Word: satanic
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...Satan, I know thy strength, and thou...
When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...
...highly Shavian Don Juan denounces Hell for just that reason: it is no proper place for man, for the one animal with brains. And what, sneers Satan, has man done with his precious brains...
...exists on the Tory backbenches, where there are still men who see every Laborite as a bolshevik and every reform as a snare of Satan. Most importantly, it exists among the Tory bosses...
...Burgundy's men who captured Joan of Arc, who was then sold to the English for 10,000 gold crowns, but it was the English who turned her in to a clerical court (headed by Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais). The court declared her excommunicate, a "limb of Satan," and handed her over to the secular arm, i.e., the English occupation authorities in northern France. The English burned her at the stake...