Michael D. Shaw Oct 10, 2024, @ Mike's Point Of View
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” An earlier version of this appears in the book Quakerism Examined (1836) by John Wilkinson: "One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist." There are many other similar quotes extant.
In "Suspects", master criminal Söze hides in plain sight under the persona of Kint, and is thus able to arrange an elaborate scheme to kill off a boatload of rival gangsters. Ironically, this hit list includes the very individuals he hires to pull off a supposed drug heist on the boat. The precise details of how all this comes about are murky, since Kint—being interrogated by US Customs agent Dave Kujan—fabricates a fantasy version of what actually happened.
Belying his “convincing the world he didn’t exist” narrative, Söze is very well known to exist, at least to one of the occupants of the boat, who survives the attack. His description of Söze is transmitted to Kujan, but just a bit too late, and Söze makes good his escape.
The Devil—considered in Jewish and Christian theology as the personal supreme spirit of evil and unrighteousness—is also known as Satan, sometimes referred to as “the Satan” in scriptural references. The word “Satan” is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word for “adversary” in the Bible. “Satan” appears 45 times in the Bible, and has differing roles.
Famously, in Job, he challenges God’s praise of the title character, suggesting—correctly—that Job’s perfect, uncomplaining nature would be shattered by giving him a strong dose of adversity. In essence, God works to build up human righteousness, while Satan strives to undermine it. Thus, Satan cannot create; he can only pervert and destroy. It is then profoundly disturbing that evil Satanic rituals are so common in our everyday life.
How else to explain the debased fascination these days for transgenderism and mutilation surgery? Can there be a more literal destruction of God’s creation other than murder itself?
How else to explain the massive promotion of homosexuality in today’s culture? What can be more unrighteous than perverting the very roles of men and women? And, as if that weren’t enough, the supreme tenet of women’s rights these days is abortion. How monstrously pernicious is this?
Never mind that effective birth control methods and “morning after” pills are readily available. Abortion as a “right” defies the very act of Creation itself, but it’s even more perverse than that.
A fundamental precept of Christianity is that Jesus died for our sins—as in “This is my body, which will be given up for you.” With abortion, the Satanic ritual has it, “This is YOUR body, which will be given up for ME.” For those keeping score at home, the number of abortions actually increased after Roe was overturned.
The notion of “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” was explored by both Joan Didion and Robert Bork. Cold comfort, indeed, that modern scholars try to recast the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah as being inhospitable to strangers, rather than homosexuality. I know…the Devil made them do it.
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