Riddikulus!

Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff-- they comfort me.


One of the first times I took my son trick-or-treating we only made it to 3 houses. At that 3rd house a teenager was lying on a lawn chair dressed as a straw filled scarecrow. After going past him and getting up to the door he would jump up and come over with the candy to give out. It scared Sky so much we were done for the night.

I remember the discussion we had afterward about how vampires and ghosts and zombies are not real and the trick to making us less scared of them is to learn to laugh at them.


The idea of mocking Satan is not new. Martin Luther said, “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn” and Thomas More said, “The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked”. It is no wonder C.S. Lewis uses these quotes in his epigraph to The Screwtape Letters.