2y ago

13 January 2024

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Because he also likes torture
This is so terribly wholesome!
If I told my toddler to do this and that, and then had a laugh hating on her for doing it exactly right -- that'd be pretty evil parenting, I suppose.
I always figured in the story that really, since the adversary was the first one banished, he would probably not be so much occupied with the torture of others. Probably be like, "Welcome to the Shit Show." Assuming you even ran into him. Place is probably pretty full by now.
- The Christian Hell mythology is contradictory because it's almost entirely fanfiction, and a much more modern fanfiction than you'd think, particularly in regards to Satan's role.
  The long and short of it is that, if you assume the Bible is an authority on such things, Hell isn't this major thing where most people end up because they didn't believe correctly, it's not a physical thing at all, much less a thing populated by torturing demons, and Satan wouldn't be in charge, or the Warden, or anything like that. He'd be a prisoner too.
  Even in Inferno, Dante depicts him as imprisoned in ice.
  
  If I remember correctly, the book itself refers to a lake of fire, talks of people going somewhere devoid of God's love, and that's just it. It's absolutely bonkers what Dante's Inferno did to Christian lore.
  I'm not a Christian, personally, so it's just an oddity to me.
stabs Satan in the back
"What? Murderer gonna murder. 🤷🏻‍♂️"

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