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The Christian ethos has followers to it’s doctrine in the firm faith of a “pure evil”. The effigy of Satan to most is one of the classic red skinned, goat bodied, horned headed man carrying a pitch-fork. But is this the “true” effigy of “pure evil”? In fact, is there any such thing as “pure evil”? Is the idea of a being of a singular being of evil personified mutual to all the worlds religions?
No. It is not a mutual belief. Many of the worlds religions distinguish without doubt or question among good and bad, but very few believe in an external singular source of pure evil. Many religions believe that in the long run it is ourselves that make “good” or “bad” choices. The fact that a great deal of non-Christian religions believe that WE are responsible for our OWN evils seems a much more mature and responsible approach. Could it have been that “Satan” was developed as a commodious “scape-goat” to explain away the evils done by those of the Christian faith?
We now know that numerous who suffered lawful and scientifically explainable cases of numerous diseases (such as schizophrenia) was once explained by the church as “demonic possession”. It would be exclusively ignorant of us to not believe that a lot of times in history, one of the Christian faith has done evil things and then tried to blame it on external “evils” that “forced me to do it”. When an individual of another religion who believes in “karma” or similar would receive full obligation for their own actions.
In fact, Satan was never in truth even noted in the firstborn version of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible! It is only in the book of Job that he is mentioned. The word for Satan translated from the initial scripture of the Old Testament only means adversary. This is a far stretch to getting a figure of pure evil!
It is now ordinarily believed that the modern day effigy most have of Satan has been brought to us from the Pagan religion. Paganism is an ancient religion, perhaps even pre-dating that of Christianity itself! Pagans believed and worshiped the world herself. Simply put, Diana was the goddess of the world and represented the effeminate side. Pan was the god of the world and represented the masculine side. The effigy of Pan is that of a man with the legs of a goat, torso of a man, horns on his head and a goatee beard. Pan was seen as the hunter/gatherer and was not an evil god. He was valued by all, but a tame and peaceful god. However, if you see his effigy today, it wrongly have a tendancy to strike fear into persons who are under the faith that this is “Satan”.
When Christianity was seeking to convert the entire world to it’s religion, it had to demolish all others. This was done through a combining of strength and/or the creation and bastardization of other religion’s beliefs. (Ironic that the new religion with it’s “God of Love” meant that if you did not convert, you would be commonly put to death on the spot!) The god of Pan was quickly taken and renamed as “Satan”, “The Devil”, “Lucifer”. The power of the Christian church could quickly and without apparent effort convince it is followers of this effigy and quickly made all peaceful Pagans look like “devil-worshipers”.
If this faith in history is true, then this would follow that there IS no such entity of Satan.
All The Devils Are Here The Hidden
The New York Times bestseller hailed as “the best business book of 2010″ (Huffington Post).
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or lacking in knowledge home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America’s most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped fetch hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of it is complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together. All the Devils Are Here goes back various decades to weave the concealed history of the financial crisis in a way no former book has done. It explores the motivatings of everyone from widely known and esteemed CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis in the end wasn’t in regards to finance at all; it was when it comes to humane nature.
Review”Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera methodically reconstruct the 30 years that culminated in the Great Recession, years in which Wall Street’s relentless greed and Washington’s delusional regulators jointly built a time bomb – and thwarted any undertake to disarm it…. The depth of reporting is enormous.”
-Time
“Not for a page do the writers let any political theory or party off the hook as they deftly weave arguments, refutations and facts upon facts in this gripping account.”
-The Associated Press
“All the Devils Are Here is the best business book of 2010…. They put numbers and subtle differences in meaning or opinion or attitude into a humane drama and wrote a business book that is as riveting as an adventure novel. I thought the financial crisis had been completely covered with great books by great writers and there wasn’t anything else left to say. McLean and Nocera were competent to build on the story and trace the crisis back, 30 years ago, to it is roots.”
-The Huffington Post
“Veteran journalists Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera slam dunk this difficult project. The writers turn CDOs into something that makes sense, CEOs into the fallible persons they are, and even transform the government into a place readers may picture…. I followed the financial crisis while it was happening, and candidly always felt like pieces were missing. The books that I read after the financial crisis covered sure bits in detail, but I still had no bird’s-eye view. Finally, All the Devils Are Here provided it.”
-Business Pundit
“The writers succeed in pulling the jumbled pieces of the financial crisis together and showing how it flowed from humane foibles.”
-Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“Two of our finest business journalists have written a indepth account of the roots of the financial crisis. More than providing just a backward look, it helps explain the most troubling business headlines of the moment, as well as those that are sure to come.”
-The New York Times Book Review
About the AuthorBethany McLean is a writer for Vanity Fair and the coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room. She lives in Chicago.
Joe Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. He lives in New York.
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I thought it would take a couple of decades of perspective to tell the full story of the crisis. Meanwhile Michael Hirsh’s Capital Offense (which covered the story from Washington), along with The Big Short by Michael Lewis (focusing on a few offbeat portfolio managers), Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market (which went deep into intellectual history and gave testimony from a lot of of the humans who devised the theories), The Quants by Scott Patterson (working from the equations out) and Glenn Yago and Franklin Allen’s Financing the Future (which traced the story from prehistory into the future and emphasized the positive side of financial innovation as much as the negative side) were the best available accounts. All had stylish writing, great stories and indepth exploration to cover essential distinct elements of events.
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