Unlike some people.
Satan is a symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority, forever defending personal sovereignty even in the face of insurmountable odds. Satan is an icon for the unbowed will of the unsilenced inquirer – the heretic who questions sacred laws and rejects all tyrannical impositions. Our metaphoric representation is the literary Satan best exemplified by Milton and the Romantic Satanists from Blake to Shelley to Anatole France
And God is capricious and cruel asshole. Torturing people for fucking eternity just cause they don't lick your balls, fuck that. If i believed in the judeo-christian mythos I'd be a Luciferian.
Satan rebelled because he wanted the throne, not because he wanted to smash authority. Also he didnt want to do free labor for us mortals, even the selfish man doesnt side with satan
I think "literally created everything in the world and has complete knowledge and power over every single aspect of it" is a bit more than "arbitrary" authority tbh.
God literally came up with every little thing tho. The idea of "right" wouldn't even exist if he didn't make you such that you will think that. He can't even not be in control because everything you do or think happens because he came up with it. And you know what? If this is all his pet simulation, he knows literally everything and controls every little detail then whatever, I'll just go with it and hope he doesn't give me cancer AIDS.
Christianity is a horrifying lovecraftian religion
This is the correct answer.
And if they’re not then why would it be wrong?
I dunno. For all we know God might just be fucking with us and he doesn't really give a shit. Maybe there is an afterlife but it is the same for everyone and it is just having sex with cereals.
Just consider the possibilities. Maybe God doesn't even have the powers he is supposed to have, he's just pretending because why not. He doesn't have any idea what is going on right now because he is fast forwarding to the next interesting part, which is why there hasn't been much interesting God shit happening lately. And the only people who live to the afterlife are those who can spit watermelon seeds the farthest, because he wants them to have epic watermelon spitting wars with each other.
Ironically devil literally means "distorter" (it comes from diavolos which means exactly that in Greek) and the whole point is that he lies all the fucking time but for some reason in pop culture and movies demons are always bound by very strict bureaucracy and contracts.
Legalism was huge back in the day, and we all know lawyers are evil.
laws and contracts are a form of deception.
no coincidence that God was known to make a covenant or two in His day
edit: i'm bein edgy, i have no idea what the theological implications of this would be, don't ask me about gnosticism, i don't know what that is
I mean do it or I'll fucking kill you is as straight forward as you can get.
My head canon is that the bible was written by the devil as one of the greatest of his lies
I kinda have this story running around in my head that the judeo Christian god is the real devil that coup the other gods and Satan was just a scapegoat for all his failures
I think there's some "evidence" for that take on the story withinn hebrew mythology as yhwh is basically a war and storm god who then becomes the one true God of the israelites but he is not the only of them.
I'm also an idiot white guy raised baptist so my understanding of jewish mythology is limited as hell.
Tell me about it. I would totally sell my soul for a few material comforts. But I guess the whole "soul selling" is supposed to be a metaphor or something.
The Rolling Stones agreed, Satan is pretty based:
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
Satan
Satlan
Stalan
Stalin
:stalin-shining: :solidarity: :anarchist-occult:
he kind of does lie. he's kind of the father of lies. the great deceiver. it's one of his classic bits.
