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...elder Kahl, who had contended that the U.S. Government is "the American synagogue of Satan," jumped into an unmarked Medina police car at the shooting site and fled. Much of the government he hated was soon hunting him, employing some 100 lawmen, dozens of cars, police dogs, even an incongruously formidable armored personnel carrier. By week's end five suspects, including Kahl's wounded son, were under arrest. But Kahl was still eluding the massive man hunt...
...Promised Land, the place of safety and redemption. Rick Blaine has been cast out of America, for some original sin that is as obscure as the one that cost Adam and Eve their Eden. Rick flees to Europe, which is the fallen world where Evil (the Nazis, Satan) is loose. He meets and beds the widow of Idealism. Idealism (meaning Victor) is dead, or thought dead, but it rises from the grave. Rick, losing Ilsa, falls obliviously into despair and selfishness: "I stick my neck out for nobody." He becomes an idiot in the original Greek sense of the word...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...
Enemies like Satan are the top of the line, of course, which is why one discovers them only in fiction. Real-life enemies are rarely protean; usually they assume a single form with which they are comfortable, and stick with it. There is the help-seeking enemy, for example, who plays upon the odd fact of human behavior that by requesting your aid or advice he lowers himself before you and thus disables your wrath by your own sense of shame. Then too there is the help-giving enemy, who attempts to pile so much generosity about your head that...
...addition to the life of Christians, the churches and the world . . ."). So far, only cranky Fundamentalists seem to be offended. They argue that Christians must take the Bible straight, the way God gave it. Warns the Christian Beacon: "The Reader's Digest has done a good job for Satan...