Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell?

Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

  I went to a religious school and after learning the whole fallen angel backstory I used to prey for him, didn’t know until lesrning of that quote that Im not the only one. I later learned from a smarter religious teacher that the devil is not canonical, at least not in the way they’re portrayed today. You can thank Dantes Inferno for modern devil characterization.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember reading an old fantasy set in Hell. The joke was that when souls come to Hell they bring their expectations with them. The older demons are sick of all the changes the new dead people bring with them.

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