Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> nemesis wrote:
>>> Actually, isn't the entire Jewish faith based on Abraham overcoming a 
>>> giant
>>> obstacle put in front of him by God? Namely being asked to sacrifice 
>>> his son?
>>>
>>> And who was it that hardened Pharoh's heart again?
>>
>> Sometimes you can't ask your employees to do the job for you, you have 
>> to do it
>> yourself. ;)
> 
> I'm confused. Satan is God's employee?  I'm not sure I've heard that 
> before.
> 
In point of fact yes. In the original OT, Satan was simply the angel 
employed to do sick and evil things to people, as a test of their faith. 
There is however a few "other" middle eastern religions, like 
Zoroastrianism (no it has nothing to do with Zoro), and others, in which 
there was an "anti-god" of sorts, who was in constant battle against the 
powers of good. In one of those, Yahweh, which is considered a synonym 
to the Christian god, for some reason, is actually one of three sons of 
the one real god. All three messed up, and had their kingdoms taken 
away, apparently Yahweh for the reason that he was a war monger. In 
another, one named Ahura-Mazda is said to be fighting an eternal 
conflict with  Ahriman, who is out to devastate the universe by filling 
it with evil. These all co-existed in the same region, at the same time, 
and borrowed from each other, which is why the Jewish based faith has 
tales taken from earlier faiths, like those of the Sumerian people, 
rewritten to "fit" their mythology. Its also how, when Rome suddenly 
needed an excuse to convince "everyone" to follow their new Christian 
religion, they arranged for Satan to invade heaven, got thrown out, and 
take Hades over from the Greek Gods, renaming it Hell, then slapped a 
bit of Mazda vs. Ahriman on top, to make it look like this was all going 
on from the moment the serpent supposedly sold Eve on some apple.

It only looks like a consistent fable, in which Satan was always God's 
adversary, if literally the "only" religious history you ever read is 
the one that claims it. And even then, it contradicts itself, by having 
God, in cases like Job, sending Satan around to piss in people's cereal, 
to see if they will continue believing in him, despite his being a total 
bastard.

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