http://www.theofantastique.com/2009/11/06/scott-poole-satan-in-america/ A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theofantastique.com/2009/11/06/scott-poole-satan-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-2140 TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:36:14 +0000 http://www.theofantastique.com/?p=1540#comment-2140 [...] “Scott Poole: Satan in America” [...] [...] “Scott Poole: Satan in America” [...]

]]> http://www.theofantastique.com/2009/11/06/scott-poole-satan-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-1340 TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:25:14 +0000 http://www.theofantastique.com/?p=1540#comment-1340 [...] W. Scott Poole, author of Satan in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and the focus of a previous interview here, has a commentary posted in Religion Dispatches titled “Mauled by an Angel: Why Do [...] [...] W. Scott Poole, author of Satan in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and the focus of a previous interview here, has a commentary posted in Religion Dispatches titled “Mauled by an Angel: Why Do [...]

]]> http://www.theofantastique.com/2009/11/06/scott-poole-satan-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Cory Gross Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:57:42 +0000 http://www.theofantastique.com/?p=1540#comment-829 Very interesting interview. My only quibble would be that "American exceptionalism" is sort of the lite, low-cal, secular version of the phenomenon. I think one could make a reasonable argument that within a good number of American strains of what was once Christianity (and is now a sort of American civic folk religion), the United States has supplanted the Church as the Body of Christ and God's primary, incarnational agency in the world. Satan isn't just the big-bad supervillain; he's the Anti-America, a very real power trying to destroy the country because it is in effect indistinguishable from God Himself. It goes a lot deeper than America is always, or at least mostly, a good influence on the world. Very interesting interview. My only quibble would be that “American exceptionalism” is sort of the lite, low-cal, secular version of the phenomenon. I think one could make a reasonable argument that within a good number of American strains of what was once Christianity (and is now a sort of American civic folk religion), the United States has supplanted the Church as the Body of Christ and God’s primary, incarnational agency in the world. Satan isn’t just the big-bad supervillain; he’s the Anti-America, a very real power trying to destroy the country because it is in effect indistinguishable from God Himself. It goes a lot deeper than America is always, or at least mostly, a good influence on the world.

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