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The sad comedown of the Mormon Satan
Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — The Mormon Satan used to command worlds and control a third of the host of heaven. LDS theology, both official and unofficial, credited him with having power over the water, possessing people’s souls and bodiesand marshaling demons and other foul spirits to carry out his will.He was mighty, fearsome. His domain was this entire planet and all its seats of power.What the heck happened to him?Now he’s become that voice of chronic self-doubt in your head, telling you that you’re not good enough, and, hey, you really ought to eat that second brownie.Poor Satan. Or rather, I should say poor “adversary,” because that’s the preferred term we have gravitated toward. As Christian Anderson’s graph of the last half-century of General Conference language shows, in the 1970s “adversary” (in green) was...
