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Showing posts with label Satan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satan. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

16% of Americans believe that cows are evil. 37% of that group agree to the statement that the Devil looks like a cow.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Despite the stereotype of hard rock and the Devil fitting together, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey always claimed that he preferred Pat Boone and early Wayne Newton, because their voices put him in a more "worshipful frame of mind".

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The earliest depiction of Satan in a Christian church shows a being that is strikingly similiar to a lobster. Not having a clear idea of what the Lord of Hell might look like, the artist apparently employed something that he personally found scary. Over time, the image gradually morphed into the currently familiar image of a red, horned man. There are images of Satan with gigantic claws that date as late as the 15th century A.D., and one statue of him from a 13th century Byzantine fresco that shows him with a big, flappy lobster tail.