We decry those who, like Satan, act without a strategy.
Yet this perfect casting only proves that even God and Satan are nowhere without a good script.
Singer could not have written "Satan in Goray" without Bilgoray, the ancient shtetl where his grandfather served as rabbi for many years.
Its subtext painfully obvious, the spot showed Bonds -- without Satan horns and pitchfork -- persuading the Baltimore Orioles iron man Cal Ripken, the embodiment of all that is virtuous in the grand old game, to get (gasp!) an earring.
On the main floor there were a lot of old white guys delivering sleep-inducing symposiums discussing things like, "A World Without Satan" and "Who Will Not Inherit God's Kingdom?" (FYI it's sexually immoral people, idolaters, and greedy people who will be disinherited by the Man Upstairs).
Last year, Church of Satan Magus Peter Gilmore wrote (without naming the Satanic Temple outright) that the group's "public stunts" were obnoxious and made devoted Satanists "look as ridiculous as the theist belief systems that are being mocked".
It adds that Satan is supposed to be "repulsive and despicable - not kind and seductive, like that of the 'good-natured devil' without malice" that has been proposed.
Satan apparently proved himself without saying a lot to his teammates.
Although this war must never involve violence, he said, and Christians must love the human enemies who come under Satan's power, "even without their fully realizing it," he went on to say that the most dangerous enemies were not those openly attacking the church but "more subtle enemies".
