Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 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.
> 
Oh, and to be clear, this is the interpretation of events Christians had 
on who Satan was, before they started figuring out that it didn't make a 
whole lot of sense, so had to do what they always do, and either change 
a few "minor" words (Good one is how Latin replaced the word for "soul", 
as in the "person", and the word for "that which animates, but does not 
live", with some version of "spirit". Not a big deal, unless you are 
trying to argue about when the soul "exists" in a body, and the ancient 
Hebrew implies it can't unless the body has blood in it, since the 
"soul" lies in the blood...), or adjust the footnotes, so everyone would 
know the "correct" interpretation. lol

Unfortunately, for some really odd reason, a lot of people that "do" 
read the original texts, compare them with other faiths, and study the 
complex histories behind them, kind of end up... a lot less religious. 
Its almost as if "reading" any other books makes the whole thing look 
absurd and silly, or something...

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