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Before the Fact. The accused had many aliases; Satan and Evil were two. In India, however, the accused was feared and terribly propitiated by millions as Kali, goddess of death and catastrophe, wife-conqueror of the eternal Siva, the dancer. Not in Kali's name were the 100,000 killed. The Moslems despised her as a wretched idol. The Sikhs* ignored her. Even most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier...
...Satan's Scientists. After he had let himself go and plunged into the Church of England, Lewis found himself part of a small circle of Christian Oxonians who met informally each week or so to drink and talk...
...Interpretations of history have been truer to the Christian experience when they have said that God is battling the hosts of evil-Satan, or the 'principalities and powers,' or the antiChrist. The conflict is real. Wicked men defy God's purpose and His will is distorted and disobeyed. This has been the course of history, and it will be the same if men turn atomic energy to human destruction...
...land in Heaven thinking that you're there to save helpless people from the savage Fiend. Remember, the Angels have been fighting for a long time (in the last battle, fought in their own country, Satan was routed, forced to take refuge in Hell). And wherever the battle against sin has been fought, Angels, like Americans, have been in there pitching...
Like Job, the British people had been "made to possess many months of misery." They had suffered sorely and patiently until it seemed that Satan must surely run out of afflictions with which to smite them. But last week came more blows...