The Devil offers good payment for a soul, every preacher knows that

[Tom Rinaldo]

Here in the earthly realm you can drive a hard bargain with Satan. Name your price and the Devil will gladly pay, if you are wiling to sign your soul away in return. All fundamentalist and evangelical preachers know that, and Alabama is full of them.

That's how the Devil buys souls on the open market. He offers something the seller holds dear in return. Sometimes it is the lure of sex, sometimes it is wealth or fame. And sometimes it is a majority of seats in the United States Senate. Whatever it is it, it can be taken for granted that it's something the seller feels is very very important to them.

No doubt keeping a Democrat from winning a Senate seat from Alabama is very very important to "moral majority" preachers and "family values voters" in Alabama. And to Kellyanne Conway too. They say so themselves when they admit they believe all the women who were molested by Roy Moore while in their teens. As the preachers are quick to remind us all, when the price is right weak men gladly sell their souls to Satan. It's all written in the good book they are so eager to pound on.

[dawg]

1. People think "selling your soul" is all about one big transaction.

Ole Scratch rolls up to the crossroads in his aged Cadillac, you sign the contract, and, wham blam, you can play the guitar like nobody's business. (Barre chords and all!)

But I don't think it really works that way.

Souls are sold a little bit at a time. Every time you choose the cruel, unkind option for the sake of selfishness or convenience, you've sold a little of your soul to the forces of evil.

Evil isn't a big red guy with horns and a tail. It's self-interest uber alles. It's Ayn Rand. It's "Am I my brother's keeper?".

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Word. n/t

[stopbush]

3. The Devil!

Thanks for the laughs. The Devil!

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Those Alabama Preachers backing Moore don't think it's a laughing matter

They tend to be a pretty literal sort when it comes to the Bible. Not many Unitarians down there backing Moore.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

5. "the good book they are so eager to pound on".

Pound on it?... Check.

Live by it?... No fucking way.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. They preach the opposite of what they actually defend

Within their frame of reference they have literally sold their souls to the Devil in return for political power. Their priorities and true agenda now forever stand revealed, especially the ones who don't deny that Moore molested teens half his age while an Assistant and/or full D.A.