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Converge?, and ?Revelation? to show both sides of spirituality and evil.
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stories, O?Connor makes it very clear through the use of foreshadowing that
the terror of Satan and the good will of God are present. O?Connor?s belief
in Christianity helps us explain why she uses such themes as spirituality and
evil. ?Our time concerns not religion so much as religion?but as radical
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