The last "Honest Originalist" - Anthony Scalia (in "The Devil")
Hoisted from an interview in New York magazine (emphasis mine) Anthony Scalia: You’re looking at me as though I’m weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. So, lets take a look at this Hindus ? Nah, no such person/thing. If you really want to get down to it, there is no "Good" or "Evil", but just different levels of realization/consciousness/being Buddhists ? Eh, kinda, sorta, not really. There is "Mara" (the dude who tempted Buddha), but its actually more like the embodiment of selfishness/desire in Man/Mankind. Judaism ? Nah, the closest would be yetzer hara , which is more about evil tendencies/inclinations - its kinda li...