I love how early in the bible, Satan’s role is actually to be the contrarian to God’s designs. Doesn’t actually commit any evil unless given permission by God to do so. Is kinda treated like one of the angels rather than the fallen one.
In the original Hebrew, Satan as he appears in Job is “the Accuser”, and fills the role of a prosecutor. He isn’t “the Devil”, as he is generally thought of in Western culture today.
Eh, it’s all reused pagan deities anyway.
That’s like, post-Justinian Christianity, Book of Job predates Christianity entirely
It’s reused pagan deities through the whole history of abrahamism.
At some point the abrahamic god is a pagan deity
Exactly.
No I mean you’re drawing a distinction between “pagan deities” and the Abrahamic God as if there is any difference, as if “pagan” beliefs were somehow more original or pure
In Hinduism Yama is the God of death and a punisher. The lord of hell who punishes sinners.
Yeah and Christians always put him and Hades in the evil corner when they’re writing stories based on myths. Even Anubis gets the villain treatment by people who really can’t be trusted with other cultural mythos.
It really makes me wonder if the Germanic/Norse Hel was actually villainous, given how spotty our actual knowledge of their myth cycle was. It’s certainly a convenient name for her to have, but it’s also more than possible “Hell” came before “Hel” entirely organically instead of being evidence of Christian revisionism.
Yama is the god of justice, who also collects the dead. He is only a ‘punisher’ in the sense that he is a judge. He is usually shown as being happy to cancel or reduce punishments if the dead person can give some legal justification for their actions.
If you have read Discworld, Death is very similar to Yama, (except that Death leaves the judgement to the dead person).
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Funny watching Lucifer tv show while scrolling past this.
Best show about Christianity for sure 😁
Not Good Omens?
Ooh, good point. Choosing between Neil Gaiman projects is like deciding who’s your favourite child 😬❤️
So - it’s easy?
Nah, not everyone has a perfect angel and a dud spring from their loins like you 😂
Just gonna deny our boys on VeggieTales.
Yeah, preaching religion to children is fucked up, no matter how catchy the songs might be 🙄
From what I know, the angels originally thought humans were a bad idea so god killed them (angels aren’t sentient from what I know) and asked other angels. Eventually the angels said it was a good idea
I have zero idea if I remember this correctly
I’m sure there’s some obscure source saying something like that, but at least in the bible angel feedback is no part of the creation.
