Word: satanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kiss From Satan by Anne Hampson...
Those lines have a ring as old as the novel itself, which was born as romantic kitsch for women when Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was published in 1740. But A Kiss From Satan was written this year and, even in the midst of a pornography boom, it and similar well-scrubbed (though timidly suggestive) paperbacks for women are spinning a new fortune for a Toronto-based publisher, Harlequin Enterprises. The firm's profits have more than tripled every year since 1970, and now stand at $1.6 million on revenues of $15 million. Harlequin, which...
...tragedy of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, intended by God to be joined in divine matrimony, were to have been the perfect parents, and form, with God, a kind of Trinity to shape the world. But Eve sinned by committing adultery with an archangel, who thereby became Satan. According to Moon, Jesus was supposed to be a second Adam, creating the perfect family. His crucifixion, before he had a chance to marry, redeemed mankind spiritually, but not physically-a task left over for the Lord of the Second Advent. In Moon's divine account books, there...
...seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary, as he recalls his early training. "It was God's alibi. Evil was made by man or Satan. It was simple that way. But I couldn't believe in Satan. It was easier to believe that God was evil." Then, Léon offers an informal post-Freudian, post-Buchenwald process theology that assumes man can judge God's acts and know them evil, but asserts...
...think God is letting it go this far so he can receive the most glory from this when Wesley comes back," Lawrence Parker explained. Pastor Nash, however, was shaken. "There is no reason for Jesus to resurrect this boy," he said. "I think the Parkers have been deceived by Satan." At week's end the Parkers had been arraigned on charges of manslaughter, and Wesley was still in his grave...