“Angels, spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satan—these, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture. The dominant materialistic worldview has absolutely no place for them. These archaic relics of a superstitious past are unspeakable because modern secularism simply has no categories, no vocabulary, no presuppositions by which to discern what it was in the actual experiences of people that brought these words to speech. And it has massive resistance even to thinking about these phenomena, having fought so long and hard to rid itself of every vestige of transcendence.”*------------------------------------/
“Held up against the divine Logos, Satan here would represent the lesser lures and promptings that appear alongside the lure of the highest. Some of these lures are flagrantly evil; most are not intrinsically evil but merely trivial, less than best: a diversion, a waste.”**
*Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence .[Vol 2] Fortress Press. (Loc. 126+) Kindle Edition.
**Ibid., . (Loc. 513+).