• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well, he did kill a few people. But nowhere near as many as that other dude, watsisname? Jahwe or something.

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      4 days ago

      I mean, even in those cases, wasn’t that by order of god too? Iirc Satan doesn’t actually get up to much evil on his own in the Bible.

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        3 days ago

        In the earliest versions, and still is in the Jewish faith, he is literally an agent of God. God tells him to test folks, and he does his job. The whole War in Heaven and the idea that he had fallen come much later.

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          3 days ago

          Good thing it’s all made up, and no one would ever fight over stuff that isn’t real, right?

          …right?