Was Satan wrong to demand equal rights in heaven?

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Was Satan wrong to demand equal rights in heaven?

Heaven, from what we can speculate, seems to be a system that some would call a tyranny as no one was allowed to question anything or ask for change in leadership or policies.

Was Satan and the third of angels who rejected tyranny wrong to demand equal rights, and if so, are all people who demand equal rights on earth also doing something satanic?

Is this why most religions are reluctant to give women and gays equality? Do Christians and Muslims think equality to be evil and satanic?

Do religious people think that their Gods frown on the notions of equality of all people and is that why believers deny women and gays equality?

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DL

If that were the case then Moses would have been "satanic" for leading his people out of slavery.

So obviously the answer is "no". Demanding equality, and/or resisting tyranny per se does not go against the Bible.

The difference between Moses and Satan is that the former rebelled against a human tyrant, and the later against God himself.

Who told you Satan demanded equal rights in heaven ?

I always figured Satan had rebelled in order to depose God, and become ruler of heaven himself.

If Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater swallowed The Gingerbread Man, would his burps smell like Autumn?

The whole story that Satan rebelled, and was cast down apparently is not even in the Bible.

Various passages in the Bible imply that he is a fallen angel, and that he has an entourage of other "cursed angels".

So some rebellion incident in Heaven is inferred from connecting the dots in various passages. But there is no chapter/verse that actually recounts the story.

Heaven is an allegory
heaven and hell are real time constructs

life beyond the planet earth is crowded
if you want to sit at the table of light beings
you must become
enlightened

satan sucks chooks bums anyhoo's

Tradition has it that Satan was the Heavenly Choir Director. As for the rest ...

The two Scripture passages that describe Satan before he fell are Ezekiel 28:12-19 and Isaiah 14:12-15. Satan was the "anointed cherub" (Ezekiel 28:14). He was adorned with every precious jewel imaginable (Ezekiel 28:13). He was "the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty" (Ezekiel 28:12b). Likely he was the highest of all angels. He was persuasive enough to convince one-third of the angels to join him in his rebellion (Revelation 12:4). Even after his fall from heaven, not even Michael the archangel dared to stand up to him without the Lord’s help (Jude 9). Satan fell because of pride. He did not like being "second best." He wanted to be God: "You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain'"(Isaiah 14:13).

Someone hasn't been reading his apocrypha OR his Bible lately.

Satan tried to overthrow God. So he was not seeking "equality".

Next question.

maybe the WP Luciferians could comment re Saturn?

Maybe he was trying to become the "Good King" of heaven, deposing the bloodthirsty god and installing himself as a benevolent dictator? I mean, God WAS the entity that made every single living thing mortal because two people at some weird fruit, wiped out every single living thing on the planet for being "wicked", and imposed ridiculous rules on mankind, only to send them into hell anyways.