Satan lives…..but he is not a caricature and he is not red in color and he does not wield a five-tined fork and he does not boast ridiculous spiked horns atop his fiendish head. No, the real Satan exists as unfounded fear…..and boundless anxiety…..and morbid depression…..and uncontrolled paranoia…….and inexplicable schizophrenia…..all of those repulsive things that can take an otherwise normal life and turn it upside down and make it into something scarcely worth living. Satan exists in a great number of lives as gross emotional anomalies that make each new day a non-stop living Hell. So don’t snicker sarcastically when the name of Satan is invoked and pursuantly conjure up medieval images of Dante’s supposedly unenlightened time. No, Ol’ Satan is as alive today as he was back then, only the disguises he now employs are much more subtle and discreet and hence he succeeds in luring the average person into a false sense of security without them ever being aware of his insidious, pervasive presence.
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