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Wednesday, April 20. 2011

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"The smartest thing the Devil ever did was to convince the world that he doesn't exist."


This is a common paraphrase of CS Lewis from the Screwtape Letters

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 10:58 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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What world is that, Bird Dog?

Methinks most convincing is Devil with billion and a half plus muhammadan slaves who think same is God who really isn't Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ who really didn't die on a cross for their sins.

That's one tricky Devilah.
#1 Leag on 2011-04-20 12:39 (Reply)
Le Joueur généreux (1864)

"His Highness … admitted to me that he had only been afraid for his own power one time, and that was the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit:
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!"

The Generous Gambler
by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
#2 DavidB on 2011-04-20 20:35 (Reply)
also Verbal, aka Kaiser Tsoze in "The Usual Suspects". Great flick...
#3 Tom Armstrong (Link) on 2011-04-20 21:37 (Reply)

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