Elephant #1:
Every Christian I know, met, or have heard of, believes in, that is to say, acknowledges the existence of, the Devil/Satan/Dragon/Serpent and demons/evil spirits.
Furthermore, all of these Christians hold to certain prophetic and apocalyptical beliefs that these elements had/have/or will have a crucial role to play in global events, past, present, and/or future, due to their particular views of Revelation and other texts.
Yet, when obvious, consistent, global evil in the world is afoot and past examples can be pointed to, and current examples can be shown, and future possibilities can be responsibly articulated and predicted, the people doing so are frequently discredited, maligned, accused, challenged, dismissed, marginalized, or made fun of and laughed at as merely the semi-delusional tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist crowd of internet weirdos, summarized, at least at AFF, thusly:
Which is really strange, because I thought you believed in a real Devil/Satan/Dragon/Serpent (and demons/evil spirits) who did have, currently do have, or will someday have, a crucial role to play in global events? So why is he and they not even on your spiritual radar when obvious, consistent, global evil in the world is afoot?
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