If the Devil wrote a bible, this book includes all his favorite subjects, sayings, and advice. Twenty-nine chapters plus his refutation of the Ten Commandments named the Ten Demonments and his own version of the Beatitudes called The Bebaditudes. What the Devil didn't count on was that the publisher would slip in responses by a typical Christian.

Pastor Kent Philpott explored Santeria, the New World version of the West African religion of the "orishas," a stealth religious movement with more than 180 million adherents in Brazil alone, and discovered that it had its roots in shamanism and that contemporary neo-pagan religions like Wicca were intimately connected with both. Even more surprising, Philpott found shamans, Santerian priests, and witches appealing to what they termed "charisma" to support and authenticate their belief systems. What the four have in common is the trance state, ecstasy, passive state of mind, or altered state...