Word: satanizing
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Other criticisms have focused on the searing imagery featured in club meetings: kids learn that nonbelievers will burn in everlasting fire and that Satan is real. "This is not just cookies, puppets and Bible stories," says Rob Boston, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State--which filed an amicus-curiae brief against the club. "This is an evangelical hard sell...
...fascinating, if you happen to get your moral philosophy from the glossy pages of America’s newsweeklies. If you don’t, though, you might wonder about Newsweek’s insistence that “We want to see Timothy McVeigh as evil incarnate, as Satan, as depravity in human form...Doing so allows us to place him in a category labeled EVIL with a capital E, but also, more importantly, one labeled...
...Waddle has searched for a meaning for what happened, he keeps coming back to the story of Job in the Old Testament. "Job is the closest corollary to what has just happened in my life," he says. "Satan challenged God: 'You have a servant named Job--let me put him to the test.'" The testing was severe--Job lost his family, his belongings and his health, until he cursed the day he was born. But throughout, he maintained his faith in God. Waddle too has lost much: his career and his shipmates. His savings have been eaten up by legal...
...SUSPECTS: A Confederacy of Extremists The targets of the investigation appear to be linked to an ideology with one Great Satan: the Federal Government...
...vying for control of the knob, until Aunt Marguerite accidentally pulls the knob out of the radio after successfully changing the station and shouts, “Aha! Jesus got the knob!” Clearly irritated, Royce replies, “Yeah, mama, Jesus got the knob, but Satan got the car keys!” With that, Royce grabs the keys from the ignition, and gets out of the car as quickly as possible...