"Satan must really be in his glory," said Mrs. Andrus frequently, wife of Pastor Ken Andrus, when us kids at Bethel Christian School would express a fascination with darker subjects, the assumption being we had been derailed from our spiritual path and Satan was watching and taking great pleasure in it.
I remember physically cringing as I pulled Origin of Species off the shelf and looked at Darwin eye to eye; this was on a weekly field trip to Erie's largest library downtown. Bethel was too small to have its own library at the time and once a week we went there to check out books.
As a matter of fact, however, Blatty wrote The Exorcist as an expression of faith, and its success was a complete surprise to him.
Reviews on Amazon portray Blatty a literary talent of some measure; I think I will read him if I get a chance, or listen to his books being read, as I do most books now.
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