People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
People are smarter than you might think.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.