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The younger Clinton took to her Twitter account on Thursday to try to mix Biblical themes with Confederate themes, saying, "The story of Lucifer-who rebelled against God-is part of many Christians' traditions." Then she added that she never saw a statue of "Lucifer" in a church:
Some feel that Chelsea is attempting to set up a basis for a run for office by using her Twitter account to show how brilliant she is, but this particular tweet landed with a thud.
Whether or not you consider statues to Confederate generals an act of evil, Chelsea's point fell short just by dint of historical fact. The truth is, Lucifer has appeared in art, paintings, and sculptures - many of them appearing in churches and religious texts - since Christianity began.
One of the most famous is the sculpture simply entitled Lucifer, by artist Guillaume Geefs. Today, it stands in the Cathedral of St. Paul in Liège, Belgium.
Also, in the ceiling flourish in the Norwich Cathedral in Norwich, Norfolk, in England, one can find a depiction of a Christian wielding a golden sword while fighting the devil.
A bas-relief entitled The Harrowing of Hell, depicting a victorious Christ standing on the defeated body of Satan also appears on the walls of the UK's Lincoln Cathedral.
There is also Luca Giordano's painting of Archangel Michael and Fallen Angels, Vienna, which was originally commissioned in 1666 as a church altarpiece. It stood in the chapel of St. Louis in Vienna's Minorite Church in the late seventeenth century.
There have even been new works of art depicting Satan. A piece entitled Lucifer (Morningstar), by artist Paul Fryer, was exhibited in 2014 in The Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone, Westminster.
Finally, also in 2014, Stanford's Cantor Art Center even held an exhibition of 40 works of art portraying Satan that spanned 500 years.
The list of paintings, friezes, reliefs, statues, and other art depicting Lucifer is long, indeed, and many of these pieces of art were commissioned for Christian churches.
Clearly, Chelsea Clinton really had no idea what she was talking about, and many of her Twitter followers slapped her down for it.
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"I've never been in a church...
Plastic surgery may have made the face almost agreeable (in the sense that the vomit no longer rises up the back of your throat when you see her photo), but, unfortunately, not even her elite education could cure STUPID.
I wonder what happened to Pizzagate, and I wonder what the state of Killary and Bill's health is like now.
I'm also beginning to wonder: Is there actually a Democrat (or Republican for that matter) Party left anymore, or has everything just degenerated into one great big dirty great black-hole, plug-hole vortex anti-plan?
BTW it's not normally customary for me to say mean things about hogly women, but in Chelsea's case, I'm prepared to make an exception....[Link]
This is one of my specialities: The Luis Buñuel Martini, which has pretty much the same ethos as The Winston Churchill Martini, and I think it's important to state a not particularly well-known fact that Britain's WWII effort was conducted by a person who was a total Martini freak.
"The Perfect Martini by Luis Buñuel
To provoke, or sustain, a reverie in a bar, you have to drink English gin, especially in the form of the dry martini. To be frank, given the primordial role in my life played by the dry martini, I think I really ought to give it at least a page. Like all cocktails, the martini, composed essentially of gin and a few drops of Noilly Prat, seems to have been an American invention. Connoisseurs who like their martinis very dry suggest simply allowing a ray of sunlight to shine through a bottle of Noilly Prat before it hits the bottle of gin. At a certain period in America it was said that the making of a dry martini should resemble the Immaculate Conception, for, as Saint Thomas Aquinas once noted, the generative power of the Holy Ghost pierced the Virgin's hymen "like a ray of sunlight through a window-leaving it unbroken."
Another crucial recommendation is that the ice be so cold and hard that it won't melt, since nothing's worse than a watery martini. For those who are still with me, let me give you my personal recipe, the fruit of long experimentation and guaranteed to produce perfect results. The day before your guests arrive, put all the ingredients-glasses, gin, and shaker-in the refrigerator. Use a thermometer to make sure the ice is about twenty degrees below zero (centigrade). Don't take anything out until your friends arrive; then pour a few drops of Noilly Prat and half a demitasse spoon of Angostura bitters over the ice. Stir it, then pour it out, keeping only the ice, which retains a faint taste of both. Then pour straight gin over the ice, stir it again, and serve."
There's one crucial difference between a Luis Buñuel Martini, a James Bond Martini (it's got vodka in it - excuse me???) any other Martini, and a Highland Fleet Lute Martini - rather than 'shaken' or 'stirred', I vortex mine Viktor Schauberger style.