Is this guy jerking our chain? Surely one of the highest authorities in the land, a paragon of reason, should have a slightly more nuanced vision of wrong than a guy in a funny costume going around possessing swine and whispering things in peopleās ears? So who is this guy, and what has he done with the real Supreme Court Justice?
Interviewer: Well, youāre saying the Devil is Āpersuading people to not believe in God. Couldnāt there be other reasons to not believe?
Scalia: Well, there certainly can be other reasons. But it certainly favors the Devilās desires. I mean, cāmon, thatās the explanation for why thereās not demonic possession all over the place. That always puzzled me. What happened to the Devil, you know? He used to be all over the place. He used to be all over the New Testament.
I had to read to read that twice. āThatās the explanation for why thereās not demonic possession all over the place.ā
So, because we do not see the Devil everywhere interfering and being a bastard like he āusedā to, this is just evidence that heās gotten āwilierā than he used to be, like 3000 years ago.
So, for Scalia, absence of evidence is evidence of presence.
I sincerely hope that Antonin Scalia lives long enough to see the entirety of his nutball theocratic judicial activism overturned.
Actually, this idea is neither new nor original. C.S. Lewis articulated the same thing more than 50 years ago, and Iām willing to bet itās older than that.
Nino is one of those people that watches āThe Passion Of The Christā and thinks he read the Bible.
Satan is the voice of temptation in Genesis, And that is a story that predates Judaism and the concept of Satan anyway, nor is the serpent-Satan connection established in ancient Hebrew versions.
Then he has a friendly conversation with God and convinces God to slaughter Jobās family to test his faith, then Satan is the voice of temptation for Christ in the wilderness. No physical power there, nor does Satan even have a physical body.
John talks a lot about Satan in his various letters as the personification of temptation, but not an actual entity.
Mel Gibson uses Johns themes in āThe Passion Of The Christā where Satan controls Judas. But remember the crucifixion of Christ was Godās will, not a Satanic plot. There is no theological basis to suggest that Satan is powerful enough to kill Godās son on a whim, unless maybe youāre an actual Satan worshiper.
Then there is this whole āLeft Behindā/Book Of Revelation scenario which Iāll believe when I see it.
Otherwise, the mention of ādemonsā seems to be describing schizophrenia or maybe bath salts.
According the Bible, Satan gets almost no screen time and his power is mainly limited to whispering in peopleās ear. And Satan never manifests anything resembling a human body.
ANYONE IN PUBLIC SERVICE that is THAT bugfucking crazy needs to be removed from office in a straightjacket.
Since nobody else said it yet: I, too, believe in the devil, and his name is Antonin Scalia.
What?
Samuel L Jackson and Charley Murphy as white gangster wannabes mashing up Charles Rumsfeld and Pulp Fiction
If there is no Devil, what the hell happened to my laundry?
Wow, olā Antonin may have read āThe Screwtape Lettersā at some point in the past and vaguely remembered part of it. Is it a bad thing that this increases my respect for the intellectual capacity of our esteemed supreme justicicar?
Hot Stuff is A devil, not THE devil.
I thought the Devil was in the details. Where are the details?
Ugh. More lazy article titling from boingboing.net, what are you guys protesting Strunk and White now? The correct grammar is āThe Devil, Antonin Scaliaā
Heās a right wing tool appointed by Ronald Reagan and currently working for the Koch Bros. and their cohorts. They like to put ignorant, stupid people in high offices. It makes the corporate takeover of the US govāt so much easier to pull off.
Maybe the devil is now a fat type A asshole in a black robe and an attitude?
Was just thinking along those lines. Now that he mentions it, Iāve also never seen the Devil and Scalia in the same room. Sounds like sound evidence to me!
Damn Iām too old to play Abigail Williams though. Iāll have to go for Sister Jeanne. Now that I think of it, that made for a better movie anyway.
If onlyā¦ There are so many people with shocking amounts of āpowerā that believe in this fucking hokum.
Your ordinary every day schlub, ok. But someone who had to at SOME point in their life display some pretty serious smarts? I donāt get itā¦
You may be an ambassador to England or France
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearlsBut youāre gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
Youāre gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But youāre gonna have to serve somebody
http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/gotta-serve-somebody#ixzz2h5btZIyY
His worldview astounds me. Fuck. Nuts.
