It’s the devil’s show I’m talking about, not
God’s. I mean this present world.
The fact that it is the devil — Satan,
Lucifer, Abaddon, Beelzebub, the Serpent of Old — who is running the show
here on earth is not well understood in or outside religious circles, possibly
because so many have difficulty with the notion of personal evil. Social evil,
sure. Patriarchal evil, definitely. We’ll even maybe sorta kinda acknowledge
that once in a while there comes on the scene a man or woman so virulently depraved
that even a bad upbringing, lack of education, racism or poor social conditions
do not fully account for it. Who would blame Jeffrey Dahmer’s mother, after all?
But an invisible supernatural being pulling
the strings behind the scenes? A bit of a stretch. For the source of all the
bad news in this world, let’s look elsewhere.