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Balduin, a poor university student and fencer sells his soul to become more popular but ends up having to fight his doppelgänger to save it. [10] The Devil and Daniel Webster: 1941 Walter Huston: Mr. Scratch Jabez Stone, a poor farmer sells his soul for seven years of luck and prosperity but gets it back with the help of Daniel Webster. [11]
[271] [272] [147] Satan may have first become associated with goats through the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, recorded in Matthew 25:31–46, [278] in which Jesus separates sheep (representing the saved) from goats (representing the damned); the damned are thrown into an "everlasting fire" along with Satan and his angels. [81]
Christianity describes Satan as a fallen angel who terrorizes the world through evil, [16] is opposed to truth, [18] and shall be condemned, together with the fallen angels who follow him, to eternal fire at the Last Judgment. [16]
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyTo hear pop culture tell it, Satan—or the devil, if we are being formal—is the ruler of hell. He runs infernal operations in Far Side comics ...
Although the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, [30] Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the devil due to Revelation 12:9, [31] which describes the devil as "that ancient serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world; was thrown down to the earth with all his angels."
For example, the Book of Revelation does not say the Antichrist will be the son of Satan (it does not even mention him), but the idea was made popular in at least two movies, The Omen, and its sequels, with the evil child, Damien, who grows up with the destiny to rule and destroy the world, and Rosemary's Baby with her son, Adrian.
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When conservative lawmakers in Florida and Texas won the fight to allow religious chaplains in public schools, they swung open the door to ministers from other faiths — including the Satanic Temple.