{"id":5185,"date":"2020-10-26T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/yes-there-is-a-great-adversary\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:32:35","slug":"yes-there-is-a-great-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/yes-there-is-a-great-adversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there is a Great Adversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there is a Great Adversary, and it exists in the human heart.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the Satanists ready to put up their demon-guy statue across the street from the church to keep the church from putting up the giant grotesque statue they were going to force on everyone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like, &quot;Hey you pseudo-pagans Christians! Keep your religious iconography to yourself. If your religion is true, then you&#8217;re suffering under the sin of false idolatry and you need to stop. We&#8217;re all very concerned for your well-being,&quot; but coming from Satanists.<\/p>\n<p>As an outside observer, I can feel things coalescing in my head. Ideas taking form as I watch the shameless display playing itself out across the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is in the Eye of the Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us not part of the madness are being forced to watch a bunch of apocalypse cultists play out their end of the world play. All of them shouting about The Bible they&#8217;ve never read but allowed others to interpret for them.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they would leave the rest of us alone, but they seem bound and determined to suck us into their drama.<\/p>\n<p>It sucks.<\/p>\n<p><em>They<\/em> suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there is a Great Adversary, and it exists in the human heart. I think of the Satanists ready to put up their demon-guy statue across the street from the church to keep the church from putting up the giant grotesque statue they were going to force on everyone. It&#8217;s like, &quot;Hey you pseudo-pagans Christians!&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/yes-there-is-a-great-adversary\/\" title=\"Yes, there is a Great Adversary\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, there is a Great Adversary<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[562,725],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-philosophy","tag-philosophical","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1lD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4691,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/poem-home-by-harper-kingsley\/","url_meta":{"origin":5185,"position":0},"title":"POEM: &#8220;Home&#8221; by Harper Kingsley","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"June 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"HOME by Harper Kingsley A knock at the door came in the night lifted me up held me so tight. 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