‘The real shape-shifting force we need to be talking about in this tale is not witchcraft and Satan, but Christianity…
Once, a rational Europe believed that Christianity could be assimilated to modern knowledge and a modern worldview. This has not happened: that Christianity has lost its blood, its life. In order to gain power today, at least in Africa, Christianity must acknowledge the power, or at least the reality, of the devils.’
Erik Davis on Sarah Palin’s peculiarly magickal brand of Christianity.