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- Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
In "The Devil's Church", by Machado de Assis, the Devil, tired of his usual role as tempter, decides to create his own church to lead mankind astray. He promises men power and pleasure, but without the fear of eternal hell, offering a religion of debauchery and hedonism. The satire deals with the corruption and hypocrisy of religious institutions, revealing human nature and its contradictions.
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The Devil's Church
Machado de Assis
SYNOPSIS
In “The Devil's Church”, by Machado de Assis, the Devil, tired of his usual role as tempter, decides to create his own church to lead mankind astray. He promises men power and pleasure, but without the fear of eternal hell, offering a religion of debauchery and hedonism. The satire deals with the corruption and hypocrisy of religious institutions, revealing human nature and its contradictions.
Palavras-chave
Satire, hypocrisy, corruption.
Notice
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CHAPTER I - OF A MYRIAD IDEA
An old Benedictine manuscript tells us that one day the Devil had the idea of founding a church. Although his profits were continuous and great, he felt humiliated by the role he had played for centuries, without organization, without rules, without canons, without ritual, without anything. He lived, so to speak, off divine remnants, human carelessness and kindness. Nothing fixed, nothing regular. Why wouldn't he have his own church? A church of the Devil was an effective way of combating other religions and destroying them at once.
