Sunday, July 21, 2024

Awww, The Devil

Interesting note in today's New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Sunday Times" - on The Devil’s Best Trick by Randall Sullivan:
The Devil’s greatest trick, as the saying goes (attributed sometimes to Baudelaire and other times to “The Usual Suspects”), was to convince the world he doesn’t exist.
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you just nail this whole 'devil existing' thing to the wall just a few short short months ago?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:

Why would God create his own rival, the Devil? Besides there being a god in the first place, is this one of the all-time greatest dupes ever? "Oh yeah, and then he invented an evil rival to make things more difficult for everybody involved, including himself..." Really?

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