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Lucifer convinced a third of the angels to rebel against an all powerful leader. Either angels are fucking stupid, or God is a terrible leader.
That's actually a good idea. Thanks The Member Formerly Known As Baya. I've been writing a short story for my writing class about Lucifer rebelling against God, but portraying Lucifer as a freedom fighter and God as a corrupt leader. Now instead of fighting God directly, I'm just going to have Lucifer and his army make an exodus to Hell, which will be the lands out of Gods influence, and I'm going to try to make it parallel to Moses leaving Egypt. Community college professors love parallels.
I doubt his limits are geographical. More likely he passed on his powers to the angels so they'd do the petty tasks he didn't want to do but then some of them teamed up and used their new combined powers to try a coup but failed and were banished. (Or perhaps, as you say, they left on their own accord rather than face God's wrath.)
Unless you have something to go on, as far as I can see trying to explain the issues in the story is meaningless speculation. Especially when it could be adequetly explained by lack of thought from authors.
As far as I know the angels did the petty tasks God either couldn't or wouldn't do. It could be that it's impossible or extremely difficult for him to manifest himself in this reality.
I always thought that Satan was pretty cool. I don't worship him as a God or anything, but he is a cool guy.
I can't think of the source, but as I understand Hell is the absence of God. So I don't think it's unreasonable to assume God has a sphere of influence and can't operate outside of it. We're discussing a fictional work as if it were real. Of course it's meaningless speculation. But if something doesn't add up in a fictional world, you don't blame it on the author not thinking up an answer, you think of the answer on your own. It's no different than arguing about the inane details of Star Wars, it's just that this source material is older.
I know. But this area of mythology is well documented. There may well be a real answer. So I take issue with making things up and saying such and such probably happened if you don't really know the subject. If we're going with the Star Wars analogy then this is like writing alternative universe fanfiction.
It's actually in our universe, much like the story set in the Bible, but it happened a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... much like the story set in the Bible.
It's Hell, dear. You should know that by now. Anyway, it's a coherent (as opposed to most of what you write) claim that your master is a bit of an ass and the angels who rebel against him aren't totally bad.
Satanism is about worshiping the SPIRIT within the individual for the SPIRIT of The All manifests in all creations for “while All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All. To him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge.” – The Kybalion.
Well I can tell it's supposed to be a joke (just looking at everything else on thes site verifies that).
A good product sells itself without advertising. Satanism isn't on billboards, tv sermon broadcasts, or magazine ads, and people STILL hop to it.
The thing is, Lucifer isn't responsible for anything bad. God was a dick, Luci said fuk dis shite, so God got pissed and demoted him to cleanup duty for spoiled souls. There are even parts of the bible where it outright says that Hell and the Devil are just parts of Gods business strategy for making sure only the people on the list get into Heaven. Also, there's all the Job bullshit where all Satan has to do is say "Hey God, bet I can get that faggot over there to say you suck!" and God will forsake any one of us to the Devil just to see if we are good enough. Satan is like an overzealous bouncer at a club. All he is doing is his fucking job.
Technically, Satan is being the bigger man of the relationship. God talks all this shit in the bible, AND SATAN DOESN'T EVEN RESPOND. Bigger man, superior deity.
I fail to see what old pictures of Stalin and Hilter (both avowed Christians BTW) has to do with this; It is like you aren't even trying any more David.
