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Deals with the Devil,

portals to hell

and innocent people possessed by demons.

For thousands of years, people around the world

have believed in the existence of Satan,

an entity that is thought to be the embodiment

of pure evil.

But is Satan just a myth?

A figment of our collective imagination?

Or is he lurking,

ready to tempt us

and possess our souls?

Well, that is what we will try and find out.

The Holy Land.

For thousands of years, religious pilgrims

of many faiths have come to this sacred city to express

their devotion to God.

But just outside the walls of Jerusalem

lies the Valley of Hinnom,

an ancient place of unholy worship

where evil deeds were performed long ago

in honor of God's enemy, Satan.

In the book of Jeremiah, God reports,

through His prophet, that people outside Jerusalem

in a place called the Valley of Hinnom,

are sacrificing their sons, and also their daughters.

And God explicitly says, "I never asked you

to do this satanic ritual,"

and expresses that He's angry,

that there's going to be a terrible punishment for this.

Historically speaking, in the days of the Bible,

not everybody was faithful to the Lord.

Satanism influenced the Israelite community.

And what they would do, literally,

was they'd create a big pit of fire,

and they actually would sacrifice

their firstborn male through the fire.

This was performed in the Valley of Hinnom,

which is actually the Hebrew word today for "hell."

I can't imagine what would cause someone

to want to sacrifice their own child,

to anything, for-for any reason.

But this demonstrates how,

in antiquity, people believed that their crops wouldn't grow,

that the rains wouldn't come if they didn't offer sacrifices

up to some satanic demons, spirits, whatever.

And now you have introduced this new being

that's responsible for the bad things,

and his name comes to be Satan.

What can explain the shocking events

that took place in the Valley of Hinnom

thousands of years ago?

Was it simply the result of human wickedness?

Or is it possible that, as the biblical accounts suggest,

Satan and his demons were and still are real entities

that have the power to influence people?

Some people think of Satan as Beelzebub

or Lucifer or the Prince of Darkness

or "the evil one" or Old Nick.

And some of these names come from scripture.

A lot of them come from folklore.

And if you think of Satan as this ubiquitous figure

who's constantly tormenting and tempting people,

then it makes sense that the Devil can be known

by all of these different nicknames.

Is there really a character of the Satan?

Well, the definition of that is going to differ

between the major world religions.

But fear of an eternal damnation in the afterlife

has always been sufficient to keep people religious,

and in line with the beliefs of their religious clerics,

who warn them that failure to comply

will lead to an eternity of suffering and damnation.

Or in other words, the stories from which this developed

were to teach moral lessons.

Throughout history, many religions have

interpreted the world through the lens of having

a figure of evil, Satan, who is responsible

for evil in the world.

According to Christian tradition,

Satan was one of the most powerful

and beautiful of the angels.

He rebelled against God,

a third of the angels sided with Satan,

and there was a war in heaven.

Satan lost and was cast down into hell.

Satan is the embodiment of evil,

a fallen angel who tempts you to not follow your best values.

He is a god of sorts and he can offer something like that to us,

great knowledge, control, mastery.

The stuff of transcendence.

Of course, it will cost us everything.

After all, this is not a straight shooter.

This is not somebody who's going to tell the truth.

His job is to tempt you.

Satan is believed to have tried to tempt Jesus

when he was in the desert with visions of earthly delights.

So Satan is continually, throughout the Bible,

someone trying to draw people from God to evil.

But the idea of Satan flows throughout history

and across religions.

There is Mara in Buddhism, who is a demonic king,

a entity representing evil, and therefore,

would tend to take on very frightening forms

which often times are mixtures of human and animal.

There is Iblis, who is the Islamic representation of Satan.

So, we see this figure of Satan, a singular entity

that is in charge of evil across religions and over time.

In Western Europe, we start to see depictions

of the Devil around the eighth and ninth century.

And the Devil becomes depicted all over churches,

in various other sorts of art and statue and so forth.

He is always portrayed as a monstrous beast,

half human, half animal, sometimes winged,

sometimes horned, sometimes red, sometimes black,

occasionally surrounded by his subordinate demons,

and often emerging from the flames of hell.

Does this universal belief in an evil,

tempting enemy of God

suggest that Satan, by whatever name he's called,

is actually real?

According to one of the most important spiritual leaders

in the world, the answer is an emphatic yes.

Pope Francis publishes a statement

which contains a dire warning to those who don't believe

in the existence of Satan.

The pope declared

that "we should not think of the Devil as a myth,

"a representation, a symbol,

"a figure of speech or an idea.

"This mistake would lead us to let down our guard,

"to grow careless and end up more vulnerable."

Pope Francis has spoken about the reality of Satan

than the previous popes have.

And he often speaks about Satan as a-a real person, of course.

And also, that, he said, "Don't try to argue with Satan.

"Don't get into a dialogue with Satan

because he'll outfox you," which is good advice.

The current pope,

who people usually think of

as being this sort of progressive figure,

he talks about the powers of Satan as a literal entity.

But the Devil is still a very powerful force

who sort of lurks in the bounds of our imagination,

and for some people, genuine belief.

It's a common misconception amongst academics

and secular people that the Devil is an outmoded idea,

that it went away in the Middle Ages,

and that couldn't be further from the truth.

Very recent data from the United States

shows that over half of Americans believe

that the Devil is a real entity, not merely an idea.

There are certainly many who believe in the Devil,

uh, by whatever name,

and that doesn't mean it's just fantasy.

There's something happening.

Human beings are encountering something more than themselves,

so one theory is it's the Devil.

I think that our ideas about things

like supernatural evil tend to depend

on the situation we're in and what's happening to us

on a given day.

And ultimately, many people say

they absolutely believe in the existence of Satan.

If Satan is actually real,

then it begs the question:

how does he travel from hell or wherever he is to Earth?

Perhaps the answers can be found by examining a city

located in the mountains of China.

A city that many believe

is a portal to Hell.

High in the mountains of Central China,

along the banks of the Yangtze river,

lies a complex of shrines and temples

that is known as Fengdu Ghost City.

According to the Chinese legend,

Fengdu is considered to be a place

where our world meets the underworld.

As you're approaching Fengdu City on Ming mountain,

you're imagining something that's gonna be beautiful,

but instead you see these depictions

of hellish images, and devilish creatures

are actually devouring human beings.

One of the first things that you encounter, uh,

when entering the complex is, um, actually a gate

that is shaped as the head of a demon,

and you have to enter it through its open mouth.

So it's a very impressive first sight

that the visitor encounters.

Walking through this complex

is like walking through hell itself.

It's supposedly the place where the Devil actually resides.

The vast array of devilish statues and carvings

found throughout Fengdu have earned the city

a ghoulish reputation.

But why did the ancient Chinese feel the need to create

an entire city filled with such ghastly depictions

of the forces of evil?

Well, Fengdu Ghost City is believed to have been

first built during the Han dynasty

around the year 200 AD.

The city was constructed to represent

Chinese believes about the afterlife,

and how a person's soul is judged after death.

The Fengdu Ghost City is a type

of purgatory space in Chinese conceptions of the underworld.

It's a place where the souls

of recently-deceased people are brought

so that they can be in front of the court of the underworld,

and tried and judged for all the actions,

the good deeds and the misdeeds,

that they performed during their life.

If their karmic balance is positive,

then after their judgement, they are taken

to various celestial realms

where they can enjoy a nicer afterlife.

If your misdeeds overshadowed your good deeds

during your life, then you will be unable to complete this trial

and you will be presented for judgement forthwith

and then carry out your sentence.

The final judgement takes place

inside the oldest temple in the city,

where a person's soul is put on trial by King Yama,

the gatekeeper to hell.

This main building, which is actually King Yama's court,

is presided over by a statue of King Yama,

very fearsome in appearance.

King Yama is the overseer of the underworld,

in the Chinese tradition.

So he judges the deeds and misdeeds of the deceased

and oversees all of this distribution

of postmortem justice.

So he's bringing down the full power

of the underworld state to bear

on the people that he judges.

And he is also flanked by a retinue of demons.

Their role is to dole out the punishment

and to make sure that the punishment is respected.

For those who don't go straight to the celestial realms,

they have to spend a certain amount of time

in the 18 levels of hell.

And you have a variety of hells,

you have the hell of burning oil,

you have the hell of fire,

you have the blood pool hell,

in which you have to spend a time,

sometimes close to eternity.

The fact that this has become a major site

that is open to the public and that people can visit

perhaps serves as a kind of warning or an incitement,

uh, for, uh, people to live more moral lives

and, uh, to be kinder to others.

The idea that your soul can be doomed to hell

for eternity is concerning, to say the least.

But it also raises an intriguing question.

What led people to believe that this particular location

was so strongly connected to the devil

and hell in the first place?

There's a long history of connecting Fengdu

to the gate of hell.

The gui-men-guan, or the gate of demons,

and this is considered to be the actual gate to hell,

to the-to the courts of the underworld.

It's the actual entrance portal to the netherworld.

This portal to hell is actually a two-way portal,

so not only can the deceased enter it

to get to the netherworld,

but you have the demons of the netherworld

who are allowed to leave, who can emerge from it

and sometimes wreak havoc in the world of the living.

The notion that Fengdu Ghost City could be a portal to hell

may sound far-fetched to some.

But on the other hand, there are similar places

throughout the world that are also thought to serve as bridges

where Satan crosses over from his realm into ours.

The idea of a portal to the underworld,

a doorway to hell, shows up in many different cultures

and various locations.

There are certain caves in the Mediterranean area

that that is how you enter or someone returns from Hades.

There's a burning bowl in Turkmenistan.

It's actually a natural geological formation,

but it is continually burning,

and it looks like a gateway to hell

if you would descend there.

The concept was always, if Satan shows up on the Earth,

people asked, how did he get here?

Does he have a magic power where he can just appear

and just disappear, or is there a way to a shortcut?

And what happened in a lot of religions

is you had to have some kind of way

to get from the underworld up to the terrestrial plane.

And so, you needed to have a cave or some kind of portal.

These can be in graveyards,

they can be in old mines.

There's been a number of these reported over time.

These places have developed a folklore or mythology

that they are dangerous, scary places you should not be.

And the belief about portals to hell

is these are places where the dimensional walls are thin.

These are places where it's easier

for Satan and his minions to cross over.

Portals open us up to different dimensions.

Anyone with wisdom, who cares for their soul,

will stay far away from those locations.

Because the nature of what has occurred there

and continues to occur in these places

is always a danger.

The dark side entities are not too far away.

Satan is clearly not trapped in hell.

He clearly has some ability to go into our world

and cause all sorts of problems. In fact,

he's often imagined as being

temporarily in control of the world.

Could it really be true that Satan and his demons

use portals to spread across the Earth?

According to many systems of belief, the answer is yes.

And there are some who believe that,

once Satan has entered our world,

he has the ability to take many different forms.

It's recorded in ancient literature

that these forces

who we call shedim, or demons,

it is well known that they can sometimes materialize

into physical form.

And they would look like whatever form they would choose.

In Christian demonology, angels don't have bodies.

Demons don't have bodies.

So they can take whatever form they want,

they're natural shape-shifters.

One of the common forms that the Devil and/or his demons

are expected to take is that of the hellhound,

often times described as a monstrous black dog

with red eyes.

That has been commonly reported across history,

sometimes reported even attacking a church.

And there have been reports of these things in modern times.

So, we need to understand that these entities

are not relegated to the ancient past.

We must protect ourselves from these interactions.

Could we be surrounded by satanic beings

that have the power to take any shape they please?

It's an alarming thought. At least, to most of us.

But believe it or not, there are those

who have actually chosen to welcome evil into their lives

by making a deal with the Devil.

This small town,

located within an area known as the Mississippi Delta,

has been called the Birthplace of the Blues.

The Delta blues music

basically started in the early '20s,

and it came from Mississippi

and it was African American musicians

who sang very soulfully...

very fiercely with their guitars, with their harmonicas.

And it wasn't usually a whole band,

It was usually an individual person.

Of all the blues musicians to play

in Clarksdale during the 1920s and '30s,

one of the most influential was a guitarist,

singer and songwriter named Robert Johnson.

Robert Johnson,

before he got really famous,

he would go down on the corner and play his blues music.

But early on in Robert Johnson's career, he wasn't that good.

The Delta people would tell Robert Johnson,

"You go to the cemetery and play,

"and you would have a big audience,

and nobody would complain how bad you play your music."

Robert Johnson, in his early part of his career,

was an okay harmonica player, not a great guitar player.

He just, uh, basically thrown out of places

because he really wasn't considered very good.

He really wasn't good at all,

but he kept on wanting to do it,

to show people that he had potential.

When faced with the prospect

of having his musical ambitions thwarted,

according to legend, Robert Johnson chose to enlist

the help of a higher power,

by making a deal with the Devil.

Peoples in the Delta would say, if you play blues

at midnight at the crossroads,

you gonna meet a lot of strange peoples,

and you might meet Satan himself at the crossroad.

And so, Robert Johnson went to the crossroad

that Saturday night.

He really went to the crossroads,

gave his guitar to the Devil.

The Devil strummed it a few times and gave it back to him,

and from that moment on, he sold his soul to the Devil

and became an amazing guitar player overnight.

And that's how the legend goes.

He came back maybe two and a half or three hours later,

and this guy was a different person.

After he left the crossroad,

he was doing stuff that he couldn't do before.

Whatever he did, he never was the same again.

Honeyboy said he could play so great,

people would come from here and yonder

to hear this guy play his music.

This guy seemed like he had a magnet

after he left the crossroad.

From that point on, he became an amazing guitar player.

He was just a lot different than what any musician could do.

Robert Johnson's legacy will live for many, many years.

You cannot listen to a song from the Beatles,

Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin or from the Rolling Stones

without giving credit to Robert Johnson's style

that many of these musicians copied.

And even Keith Richards said

he could play the guitar like three musicians together.

He had that ability.

Today, Robert Johnson is widely considered

to be one of the greatest blues performers of all time.

And his songs are among the most influential recordings

in the history of popular music.

But there are many who point to the lyrics of his songs

as evidence that he really did make a pact with Satan

in order to achieve greatness.

Robert Johnson,

in his music, refers to the Devil

basically by saying, "I went to the crossroads

and fell on my knees."

And he asked the Lord for mercy.

If you believe that the Devil is ever-present,

that you can encounter him on the crossroads,

and that's a really critical idea

informing this notion

of the Faustian bargain, the deal with the Devil.

This promise of their souls

in exchange for something else from Satan.

This is key to the fear of the Devil.

That Satan could be so knowing, so ubiquitous, so powerful,

that he could know your secret wants,

and he could offer something to you,

and you might be willing to take it

depending on your circumstance.

Did Robert Johnson sell his soul to the Devil?

It's a question that is hard to answer.

But the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death in 1938

have helped perpetuate the myth.

Robert Johnson's death is basically a mystery.

Many say that he met up with a jealous husband

after flirting with his wife

and the husband gave him a bottle of whiskey

that was filled with poison.

There's many other theories of-of how he passed away,

but many people say he just died,

and maybe it was time for the Devil to take his soul.

That mystery, it throws a monkey wrench in it,

and some people gonna believe this,

some people gonna believe that.

Didn't nobody know the full story of this guy

because that's the way he portrayed himself.

You know? S-- And-and that's just the way it is.

The mystery of the crossroad.

But while some people choose to do business with Satan,

others fall under his spell unwillingly,

a type of encounter that is referred to as...

demonic possession.

Anneliese Michel, a 20-year-old student

at the University of Wurzburg,

claims that she's hearing disembodied voices

and seeing visions of the Devil.

Before long, her family comes to believe that Anneliese

suffers from a condition that defies understanding...

demonic possession.

Anneliese Michel was indeed

tormented by a possessing something.

She spoke in a horrendously growly voice.

Her eyes seemed to go black,

and she had a great aversion to holy statues,

of which there were a great many in the house

because they were very pious Catholics.

And she was taken to a doctor

and who said she might be epileptic,

um, and she was taken to a psychiatrist,

and nothing changed in her life.

In fact, she was getting worse and worse.

Her family believed from the beginning she was possessed.

The Catholic Church accepted that framework

and engaged in the exorcism.

Ultimately, Anneliese Michel died of starvation

and dehydration over the course of numerous exorcisms.

This was a case where that belief

directly led to her death.

What we cannot say for certain is what was really going on.

I can't say that she for sure was not possessed

or for sure was.

The story of Anneliese Michel

is perhaps the best-known case

of an alleged demonic possession.

But what happened to her?

Was she actually possessed by demons?

And if so, how does one identify when a person's mind and body

have been taken over by Satan?

During the course of my career,

I've witnessed a number of cases of possession in-in my life,

but I definitely started as a skeptic.

I certainly never thought I would see anything

sort of paranormal or diabolic.

A priest who, I guess, knew I was Catholic--

I don't exactly know how he got my name-- but he came

to my office when I was at Cornell Medical College.

And he said, "Dr. Gallagher, I'd like you to, uh,

"evaluate someone for me

who I think has a demonic attack."

And I said, "Well, with all due respect, Father,

"you know, I'm-I'm an academic psychiatrist,

and I'm pretty skeptical of those sort of things."

And I remember what he said to me, he said,

"You're the perfect man for the job

because we want somebody who's skeptical."

Of course, in the years since, you know, 25-plus years,

I've seen so much that I'm not a skeptic anymore.

There are very strict criteria

which clearly have to be present to distinguish

the case from a psychiatric or medical disorder.

You have to see something that is inexplicable

in terms of purely materialist science.

Things that could not possibly manifest

in somebody who doesn't have a diabolic attack.

The first case sent to me was a woman who claimed

that she would be lying in bed,

and she would be pummeled by invisible forces.

She and her husband were convinced

that she was attacked by demons.

So we did a number of medical tests on her

because she had bruises all over her body.

And at the end of my evaluations--

And she was a very sane, lovely woman--

I said to the priest, "Look, this doesn't seem

like a medical or psychiatric case, it doesn't seem possible."

Mysterious bruises

inflicted by invisible forces?

While that may sound like something

out of a Hollywood horror movie,

the truth is that accounts of possession

have been recorded for thousands of years.

Any scholar can tell you,

cases of demonic possession go all the way back to the Bible,

when Jesus had to cast the demon out of a man

into a herd of swine,

who then ran off of a cliff and into the water.

Very famous story in the Bible.

And stories of demonic possession,

they are not confined to Christianity.

The idea of possession is inherently tied to the idea

of Satan and demons, and is an attempt by Satan

to take over your personality to ultimately control you.

The film The Exorcist is believed to have

really brought attention to the idea of possession,

but it's not that those ideas started with The Exorcist,

those ideas spread with The Exorcist.

The Exorcist was actually

based on a real case.

It was a 12-year-old boy who was possessed, not a girl.

How did he get possessed? Using a ouija board for months.

Start doing something occult,

that creates an inner vulnerability to evil.

You're using magic that does not come from the Lord.

You might not know this,

but you're actually invoking the powers of Satan,

whether you believe it or not.

Most people who are possessed,

in a sense, they've invited it in, wittingly or unwittingly.

Possession is the most dramatic attack

of a demon upon a human being.

In a way,

spiritual warfare should be a concern of everybody.

That we're all sort of in a battle

in our own souls between goodness and evil.

If Satan is trying to possess us,

are we defenseless against his attacks?

Or is there a way to fight back?

Well, there are those who believe

that there is a powerful tool we can use to protect ourselves.

The ancient rite of exorcism.

Thousands of Christians are gathered

in Saint Peter's Square

to watch Pope Francis perform Sunday mass.

As he greets the crowd, the pope lays his hands

on the forehead of a man who is thought to be possessed

and recites a prayer.

A video of the incident went viral,

and left many viewers to conclude

that they had just witnessed the pope

performing an exorcism.

Pope Francis

believes in evil spirits, he believes in Satan,

he believes in the possibility of possession

and the need for exorcists.

He's quite traditional in that respect.

Exorcisms appear in the oldest writings that we have.

From the ancient Near East, from India, from China.

So exorcism is literally as old as recorded history.

There's many different forms of exorcism all over the world

and in different religions,

and most have various types of objects

that are used to drive away unwanted spirits.

Holy relics, crosses, uh, holy water,

and even exorcism itself are what the Catholic Church

called sacramentals.

So, the church's view is that these are symbolic expressions

of the authority of the Church.

And so, even though they are, in a sense, symbolic,

at the same time, they have real power...

and can help a priest to display the authority

of the Church and drive away demons.

If Satan and his army of demons

are really waging a war against humanity,

then exorcists are on the front lines.

It's important to realize that an exorcism is not magic.

W-We don't do magic.

It's a prayer, essentially.

It's the Church's prayer to God and Jesus

to cast out the demons.

And so we invoke that authority

as his disciples to cast out the demons.

And then we use the Church's prayer

called the Rite of Exorcism.

We use holy objects like Rosary beads,

holy water, crucifixes, any holy object,

uh, Satan can't stand it.

When the person is manifesting a demonic presence,

The first thing that happens is...

you've got this incredibly evil look.

As a matter of fact, they'll look at me and they'll say,

"You stupid priest."

If you've ever really looked into the eyes of evil,

you won't forget it.

And then different things happen which are physically

not explainable.

A 110-pound young woman

throwing three big guys around the room.

So we've had some of those sorts of things.

A couple teams in the country have had people levitate.

We-we haven't.

Uh, so there are-- Things do happen like that.

Levitation?

It's one thing to believe that Satan

can take control of a person's mind

or even attack their body.

But floating in midair?

Is such an extraordinary phenomenon even possible?

About 35, you know, salt of the earth people

have told me they have witnessed, during a possession,

a levitation.

It's widely believed in these circles

one of the paranormal things that demons can exhibit

is getting their possessed victim to levitate.

A lot of people challenge what I say,

and they say, "Well, okay, you believe in levitation,

which is against the laws of science."

Of course it's against the laws of normal science.

I understand that, you know.

I'm not saying I don't believe in gravity.

What I'm saying is there are spiritual forces,

including dark forces,

that can violate the-the normal laws of nature.

To some, the stories about the power of exorcism

may seem far-fetched.

But on the other hand, this practice of banishing evil

has offered spiritual relief

to people from all walks of life.

In most of the cases that we have,

the people are very psychologically balanced.

We have professional people. We have lawyers.

We have military people.

We usually heal on both tracks at the same time.

We heal on the spiritual level.

We also heal the psychological level.

Many times, we find that the demonic feeds

off the internal wounds, the angers,

the unforgiveness, the hurts.

So when you start healing some of those inner wounds,

they have less to feed off and grab onto.

Exorcists believe they can channel the power of God

to drive Satan away, and that's certainly a comforting notion.

But then again, is it really possible to defeat evil?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining a recent report

about the surprisingly high number of people

who claim to have had an encounter with the Devil.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis reveals

that in just one year,

they have received 1,700 requests for exorcisms.

Ten times more than in previous years.

But what could explain this rise in demand?

All of the exorcists I know in this country

are busier and busier, and busier.

We, frankly, we can't deal with all the cases.

We have people come to us who are Muslim or Jewish,

atheist, many don't believe in God or whatever,

but they know they have demons, and they need some help.

So we'll-we'll often exorcise people

of other faiths or people with no faith.

I think exorcists are so busy today

if somebody believes they're possessed by a demon,

then maybe the only remedy for that

is for a spiritual authority to come in and tell them,

"This spirit is out of you."

They're not going to believe that a doctor

can remedy evil manifestations of some sort.

Evil manifestations?

Is it possible that Satan is not only real

but that his influence on our world is actually increasing?

There are certain hallmarks of Satan's presence.

Discord, rage,

violence,

lack of dialogue, lack of compassion,

hatred, all these sorts of things.

I think we see more and more of that in this country,

so I think we're seeing more and more of Satan's influence.

Does that mean people are possessed? No.

But can Satan influence a whole culture? Sure, he can.

If you start looking very, very hard

for satanism, you will find it,

You will find certain crimes that draw attention,

like the Richard Ramirez crimes...

that clearly have some sort

of satanic motivation behind them.

One of the most iconic images of Richard Ramirez

is of him holding up his hand with a pentagram on his palm

and showing it to the jury.

And this is unfortunately what has happened in many cases

where a serial killer might leave behind

so-called satanic symbols or images at a crime scene.

Any crime will be more frightening

to the general public if a layer of satanism is added to it,

because that means this crime goes beyond human motivation

and that there was something more at work here

just than a deranged person, that maybe the devil himself

was motivating these killings.

Satan tempts everyone.

And sometimes it's subtle, but he's a great psychologist.

He knows you, he tries to manipulate you,

and sometimes you don't know it's the evil one.

You know, the voice says, "You're evil. You're a sinner.

God doesn't care about you, there's no hope for you."

That's not God's voice, that's Satan's voice in your ear.

So, what do you think?

Is Satan an all-powerful lord of darkness?

The source of all evil in the world?

Or is he an idea that humanity created

an excuse, or a method of control

so that we don't have to face the darkness

that lurks within ourselves?

Perhaps the answers to these questions

will, as they have for centuries,

remain UnXplained.

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