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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HG who wrote (1282)	9/18/2001 4:26:23 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. -- Daniel DeFoe, The True-Born Englishman (1701)

To: HG who wrote (1282)	9/18/2001 4:33:34 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Satan being thus confined to a vagabond, wandering, unsettled condition, is without any certain abode; for though he has, in consequence of his angelic nature, a kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment that he is [continually hovering over this inhabited globe of earth, swelling with the rage of envy at the felicity of his rival, man, and studying all the means possible to injure and ruin him; but extremely limited in his power, to his unspeakable mortification: this is his present state,] without any fixed abode, place, or space allowed him to rest the sole of his foot upon. from Book I, Chapter VI of Daniel Defoe's The Political History of the Devil as well Ancient as Modern (1726) (a version of this quote appears at the beginning of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses)