Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Have you read the Bible? The only evil shit that Satan does is when he fucks up Job’s life, and that’s in collusion with God. Meanwhile, God is doing evil on almost every page of the Old Testament.
The reason we’re supposed to hate Satan is because he rebelled against God. Again, if you’ve read the Old Testament, you have dozens of good reasons to rebel against God.
This train of thought is what lead to the creation of Satanism as a literary movement in the 19th century and then as a religion in the late 20th century.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Also, the “satan” that is the Torah is actually more of a job title, that of an “accuser”.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sure, but I’m talking about Satan within Christian mythology, not Judaism.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Jesus was a Jew. He believed a lot of what is in the Torah. It wasn’t until about 600 matter the Bible was “finished”
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That’s cool and all, but I don’t see how that changes anything. Christian Satan is different from Jewish Satan.