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Paradise Lost?

Santa Claus is a sweet old man. Satan doesn’t like Jews. Neither of them are real.

Paradise Lost?
Photo by: Avi Katz
I think we have to talk about Satan. I know him as hayetzer hara, the impulse for evil. I know him as the snake in the garden, which once had legs and lost them before history ever started. I have seen paintings of him, horns on the head, usually a red body and a pitchfork at the ready. So I was surprised to hear one of our US Republican presidential candidates, Rick Santorum, speak of him as if he were the nasty boy who lives next door with the Obama family.

Those horns of Satan have at times been placed on the heads of Jewish people in the minds of many Evangelicals and others with vivid imaginations and theological absolutes. Most Americans in 2012 are not afraid of being impaled on those Jewish horns, but I wouldn’t press the Santorum fans on the issue.

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