U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 77, is well-known for the colorful and unabashed way he expresses his opinions. His latest headline-making comments involve Satan and his strategy for working in the world today, a concept that shocked the New York Magazine reporter who interviewed the justice recently.
The Reagan appointee has never been shy about his Roman Catholic faith and ardent trust in the pope. In a speech to the St. Thomas More Society in 2010, he encouraged Christians not to care when people question their unquestioning belief. “We are fools for Christ’s sake,” he said, quoting Paul.
In the long New York Magazine interview published Saturday, Scalia talked about everything from the Defense of Marriage Act to his favorite TV shows. But things got really interesting when he addressed his apathy toward how history will view him: “I have never been custodian of my legacy. When I’m dead and gone, I’ll either be sublimely happy or terribly unhappy.”
Taking that as a reference to the afterlife, reporter Jennifer Senior asked whether Scalia believed in heaven and hell, admitting she did not.
Have you seen evidence of the Devil lately?
You know, it is curious. In the Gospels, the Devil is doing all sorts of things. He’s making pigs run off cliffs, he’s possessing people and whatnot. And that doesn’t happen very much anymore.
No.It’s because he’s smart.
So what’s he doing now?
What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way.
That has really painful implications for atheists. Are you sure that’s the Devil’s work?
I didn’t say atheists are the Devil’s work.
Well, you’re saying the Devil is persuading people to not believe in God. Couldn’t there be other reasons to not believe? MORE AT SOURCE
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