And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshippers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.
- Revelation 14:11
Showing posts with label trident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trident. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2025
Monday, September 18, 2023
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Tridents And Pitchforks
The Devil's pitchfork appears in the second half of the early middle ages, somewhere after 800 CE. He appears by the hands of ecclesiastical writers and artists: monks and bishops. Did those monks and bishops draw their inspiration from Greece and Rome of a 1000 years before? Or from looking on peasant flock who the monks were just then beginning to worry would be shepherded away by some physical, stalking Satan, prodded and poked from salvation to the gates of hell like some demonic inversion of John the Baptist's vision of salvation by Christ:
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. [Matthew 3:12, Luke 3:17]
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Halloween Horrors
This one has it all going on. Ghosts, Ghouls (assumption), Devils (with a real store-bought plastic trident), and a paper skeleton on the door... and two baskets of what appears to be chocolate bars (hoping my mother was giving out a name brand or I officially know from where I received my gives-crap-candy genes).
Friday, December 30, 2011
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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