For some reason the whole Scalia et Satan thing seems to fit here - it’s been Paged before but it’s worth a re-look:

Scalia and the devil

Did Justice Antonin Scalia have to announce his belief in a literal Satan less than a month before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear argument on government-led prayer? Yes, he probably did.

Someone asked him.

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“You’re looking at me as though I’m weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? […] Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.”

Scalia’s right. One of the more recent surveys, a 2007 Gallup poll, shows belief in the devil rising, with a huge majority saying Satan is real.

Only 55 percent of the U.S. public believed in the reality of the devil in 1990. By 2007 that figure had risen to 70 percent, not many fewer than the 86 percent who said they believe in God.

[…]

Escapism, delusion, call it what you will. Our society is becoming less rational, in the sense of critical thinking anyway. We’re just emotional toys for the skilled propagandist.

Our culture has seemingly changed so much in the last 500 years, but remember our brains are still fundamentally the same as they were tens of thousands of years ago.