Las Vegas: Where Satan Walked
And the Lord said unto Satan, “From whence comest thou?”
And Satan answered the Lord, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
–Job 2:2
And the Lord said unto Satan, “From whence comest thou?”
And Satan answered the Lord, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
–Job 2:2
By now you know the details. Explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, UK. Word spreads as fans flee in confusion, terror, fear. Hang time. Hold your breath and hope it’s just a false alarm, an equipment malfunction perhaps. And then we learn it’s what we feared. A willful slaughter of fun-loving innocents. Bloodshed…
A version of the article below was published in Relevant.
Neil Gaiman’s 2001 fantasy novel, American Gods, couldn’t have been more prescient when it was written. Now that the series is getting the small screen treatment, the clash of gods—mythical and modern—reminds us that there really is a war going on, and the battlefield is our hearts.