Prometheus85
Active Member
Okay, so here's my theory. Yes, yes, I know we're all bored of Bible theories, but I've been sitting on this one forever and I really, really wanted to share it. If you're deeply religious and/or easily offended, keep reading because I want to read your response. But, you know, try not to lose your mind about it. It's just a theory.
We all know the story, After being kicked out of heaven for telling the big guy to go screw himself (i.e. leading a slave revolt), he became god’s prosecuting attorney and the foremost advocate for humanity’s right to know and understand what's going on around him. Some people think that makes Satan the first humanist. Lucifer was born with bat-like wings, rather than the traditional dove-like ones most angles have. Despite this huge defect (which made him the object of ridicule and discrimination), he persevered; through sheer hard work and born talent, he rose to the highest court in the world, only to come to the shocking realization that God believed that a lifetime of sin deserved an eternity of punishment. Perhaps seeing the injustice in infinite punishment for finite sins, he then rebelled against God, and eventually was exiled, along with the angels who supported him, one-third of heaven's population.
But doesn't anything there seem strange to you? Satan, the most evil being ever to have existed, managed to achieve a 1/3 minority despite running in opposition of the all-powerful creator of the universe. He must have had a hell of a case. Allowing for the individuals who remained loyal due to closely-held principles of loyalty or a desire to maintain the status quo/fear of change, it could easily be argued that a majority of the angels actually sympathized with Satan’s cause.
If anything, the evidence suggests that the great war of heaven was actually started when Satan encouraged a revolution built on the rights to freedom of thought and expression against what is essentially a tyrant titan.
We all know the story, After being kicked out of heaven for telling the big guy to go screw himself (i.e. leading a slave revolt), he became god’s prosecuting attorney and the foremost advocate for humanity’s right to know and understand what's going on around him. Some people think that makes Satan the first humanist. Lucifer was born with bat-like wings, rather than the traditional dove-like ones most angles have. Despite this huge defect (which made him the object of ridicule and discrimination), he persevered; through sheer hard work and born talent, he rose to the highest court in the world, only to come to the shocking realization that God believed that a lifetime of sin deserved an eternity of punishment. Perhaps seeing the injustice in infinite punishment for finite sins, he then rebelled against God, and eventually was exiled, along with the angels who supported him, one-third of heaven's population.
But doesn't anything there seem strange to you? Satan, the most evil being ever to have existed, managed to achieve a 1/3 minority despite running in opposition of the all-powerful creator of the universe. He must have had a hell of a case. Allowing for the individuals who remained loyal due to closely-held principles of loyalty or a desire to maintain the status quo/fear of change, it could easily be argued that a majority of the angels actually sympathized with Satan’s cause.
If anything, the evidence suggests that the great war of heaven was actually started when Satan encouraged a revolution built on the rights to freedom of thought and expression against what is essentially a tyrant titan.
