Selling one’s soul to the devil is more than a fire and brimstone tag line or the modus operandi of some satanic ritual. An alarming number of people engage in this spiritual transaction, although not in the literal manner reviled from the pulpit.
While serial killers, mass murderers, terrorists and other denizens of cruelty and horror make us wonder if there are actual demons in our midst, I suspect most who sell their souls to the devil, so to speak, do so without negotiating with fire-breathing, horned fiends. If there are demons involved, it’s more likely those residing inside our minds, not in the fiery recesses of the netherworld or Dante’s Inferno.
