The tares — or weeds from which we have made a verb out of the need of weeding them out — are the ever -
present forces of evil.
Not exact matches
In the»80s and»90s, Christian author Frank Peretti became a minor celebrity for his Stephen King-esque tales
of Christians waging prayerful combat with the supernatural
forces of evil in books like This
Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness and The Oath.
For our struggle is not against enemies
of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers
of this
present darkness, against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly places.
LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact
of the creation
of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat
of his flesh, drink
of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an
evil force from your soul that is
present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!
The premise is simple: an isolated community
of slaves has been bred by the
forces of evil for the sole purpose
of fighting for said
evil overlords» entertainment, in the vain hope that these warrior slaves can defeat the challenges
presented before them and win their freedom.
Author Tim Lebbon is very effective at
presenting the Predator people as something other than simply an antagonistic
force of evil, making the reader question the species» role in the story before the true enemy is even introduced.
Regardless, and without any check on him at all, it's all
presented with the veneer
of dark and
evil forces at work, and as absolute truth and «support» for all his implied and / or expressly stated allegations.