Some of my favorite villains in literature are Hannibal Lector, Lex Luthor, and the Wicked Witch of the West, but my most favorite has to be Satan. If you read Milton's Paradise Lost you get a better sense of the character, and see where i'm coming from.
Look at what Satan did, he saw what God created and he took a crap on it. I would call it childish if it weren't so evil. He ruined the human race before the starter pistol even went off. People were to enjoy eternal life in paradise, people would be perfection incarnate walking around naked in a perfect world. How cool would that be? I feel that humanity was caught in the middle of this thing between God and Satan and people came out smelling like crap; what did God expect to happen when Satan slithered into the Garden, anyway? People could never be a match for a fallen angel, it was unfair and unjust.
But that's literature, it's meant to stir emotion; and it doesn't have to make complete sense like written history.
I do not admire Satan, i'm just saying he's a good villain. He starts out by doing the worst thing that could be done to the human race, which was to take God away from them, and as if that wasn't enough, he comes back later to mess with people (and Jesus) on an individual basis.
Yes, people and God had a father and child relationship before Satan came along and took A&E's innocence, after that the relationship was more an employer-employee; more a warden-prisoner relationship. Life on earth became a nightmare with the threat of eternal damnation looming over people.
What i don't understand is why the animal kingdom received the very same treatment that A&E did, what did animals do to deserve that? Animals have diseases, go blind, suffer the loss of offspring just like people, and for no reason at all, seems to me.
It makes more sense to me that animals suffer just like us because we are just big brained animals. Or animals are just hairy, unambitious people, however you want to look at it.
Look at what Satan did, he saw what God created and he took a crap on it. I would call it childish if it weren't so evil. He ruined the human race before the starter pistol even went off. People were to enjoy eternal life in paradise, people would be perfection incarnate walking around naked in a perfect world. How cool would that be? I feel that humanity was caught in the middle of this thing between God and Satan and people came out smelling like crap; what did God expect to happen when Satan slithered into the Garden, anyway? People could never be a match for a fallen angel, it was unfair and unjust.
But that's literature, it's meant to stir emotion; and it doesn't have to make complete sense like written history.
I do not admire Satan, i'm just saying he's a good villain. He starts out by doing the worst thing that could be done to the human race, which was to take God away from them, and as if that wasn't enough, he comes back later to mess with people (and Jesus) on an individual basis.
Yes, people and God had a father and child relationship before Satan came along and took A&E's innocence, after that the relationship was more an employer-employee; more a warden-prisoner relationship. Life on earth became a nightmare with the threat of eternal damnation looming over people.
What i don't understand is why the animal kingdom received the very same treatment that A&E did, what did animals do to deserve that? Animals have diseases, go blind, suffer the loss of offspring just like people, and for no reason at all, seems to me.
It makes more sense to me that animals suffer just like us because we are just big brained animals. Or animals are just hairy, unambitious people, however you want to look at it.
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