Message from @Xaverius
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they are quite literally doing god's work
Lucifer as the fallen angel and so on was something manufactured in ~~the middle ages~~ general post-Roman era going on from like two offhand sentences in the old testament
its because it went from an ancient religion wth personable deities to when the orthodoxy wanted an unerring complete authority
They couldn't have God and the one who questions God treated as moral equals
basically
old testament you have people talking to god as if he was physically there
almost on the level of greek gods
based and shadpilled
I'm pretty sure Church of Satan is a troll church
it is
<:thunk:462282216467333140>
and it works
american government : no taxes for churches
shitposters : what if we made a church about satan
american government : surprised pikachu face
No it's serious
it's just not theistic
Some people suspect it's all a DMT trip, because acacia contains it like ayahuasca.
Moses and the burning bush
@Ayylmao @randomNPCno3 Here we go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer#Background
So basically in that text someone metaphorically calls the babylonian king "the shining one", personified from Venus (which was common in ancient religions) and then someone mangled the translation several times.
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And later, christianity used the Venus personification as a shortcut to call the constructed adversary a Lucifer
at least christfags dont pretend the bible is a legit 100% unedited work from the original draft *cough* kuran *cough*
boom, instant belivers
a very roman thing to do
instant boom
they wanted a trickster like being
just like their greek animes
hitler was a roman god right?
hitlers plans were not convoluted enough to be a roman god
ow
@Ayylmao On the note of talking to gods like they were there, some psychologist had this bonkers theory that a few thousand years earlier, the human brain wasn't fully developed in regards to self-awareness, so the past experiences and memories were stored in the unconsciousness and presented to the conscious mind as hallucinations and voices.
The trickster is a mainstay of religion, but all it ever represents is the questioning of the narrative. Plenty of religions don't demonize this character though, they simply caution wariness when dealing with them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
This thing. I regard it as Däniken level shit, since this is nothing you can prove, but it's fun to think about.
oh daniken
@Ayylmao Well, daniken-level of credibility. This dude was called Jaynes. Actually a pretty nice theory explaining ancient myths and why miracles and divine manifestations seem to stop being common as you go towards antiquity
Is that that whole everyone has two consciences?
i dont think ancient brains were much different than we have now