Word: satanizing
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...Century, Saint Anthony the Egyptian renounced all worldly joys, went off into the Arabian Desert to live the life of a hermit. He had a terrible time of it. Often he would glance up from his prayers to see Satan hovering before him in the gloom of his abandoned fort. And Satan was hard to recognize; usually he looked like the things Anthony missed most...
...concentrating on the feathered, taloned, sharp-toothed horrors visible to his inner eye, Ernst became modern art's first surrealist (old masters Bosch, Brueghel, Grünewald, and others had been there be fore him). All Ernst had to do was to close his eyes to see Satan hovering before him in the studio. And Ernst's Satan was easy to recognize: he invariably looked like everything that Ernst feared most...
...According to Novelist Gustave Flaubert, Satan once disguised himself as the Queen of Sheba, exclaimed to Anthony: "I am not a woman; I am a world. My cloak has only to fall for thee to discover a succession of mysteries...
...Pravda and Red Fleet, famed Soviet Author Leonid Sobolev tackled the Get thee behind me, Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...
...Satan at the Seminary. They came in droves. And when Sister Aimee asked them to give in the name of the Lord, they gave generously in silver, gold, jewelry and bridgework. Once a month, Aimee later admitted, she took up a collection for herself. In the Temple's heyday it averaged $7,000. From the Lord's share she was soon able to build the $3,000,000 Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism. From this seminary each year 200 or more evangelists-to-be were graduated-girt in shining armor and brandishing swords against a capering Satan...