Premium Content Man and Satan - Kindred Spirits in a Chaotic Universe
By Chris Mays - February 12, 2002
Perhaps the most seductive method of interpreting existence is through the bifocal lenses of morality. Whether in a religious or non-religious sense, almost every civilization, institution, and human has had its own demarcation of Good and Evil. Ironically, these various entities have so infinitely many variations of the moral code that it is…
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