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Yesterday, 8:25 pm
God sent Trump and a plague already. I'm not sure there's any god on their side.
God is dead. Hail Satan!
YHWH has always been a demon.
Satan would be an upgrade.
Today, 3:18 am
YHWH has always been a demon.
Satan would be an upgrade.
Actually 'YHWH' aka God was originally created out of combining a Caananite war god with a storm deity named El who was adopted into early Judiasm (and as a byproduct became the God of Christianity) at a time when they were actually polytheistic before abandoning other deities like Baal and Asherah. They somehow got the idea to create one supreme deity and destroy all traces of their other gods, one they could pray to for victory in war against their surrounding enemies and for rain to grow their crops and feed themselves.
So Yahweh is technically a God with 'pagan' roots (for lack of a better term), and there's actual evidence to support this if you dig around online. But good luck convincing either the religous fundies or the lazy atheists who still judge things through a Christian lens of this fact.
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YHWH has always been a demon.
Satan would be an upgrade.
Actually 'YHWH' aka God was originally created out of combining a Caananite war god with a storm deity named El who was adopted into early Judiasm (and as a byproduct became the God of Christianity) at a time when they were actually polytheistic before abandoning other deities like Baal and Asherah. They somehow got the idea to create one supreme deity and destroy all traces of their other gods, one they could pray to for victory in war against their surrounding enemies and for rain to grow their crops and feed themselves.
So Yahweh is technically a God with 'pagan' roots (for lack of a better term), and there's actual evidence to support this if you dig around online. But good luck convincing either the religous fundies or the lazy atheists who still judge things through a Christian lens of this fact.
The storm god in question is named Hadad but often referred to with the honorific Ba'al, which means Lord. The one who defeated the serpent Lothan (aka Leviathan).
Because the YHWH cult refers to Ba'al as a demon it's only fair to refer to his Temu version as a demon as well.
Today, 7:54 am
I feel like "demon" (from the Greek Word "daimon" which meant "spirit") can mean many things depending on the context. Sometimes Demons can be Gods who were designed to be malefic from the very start like the evil Mesopotamian Goddess Lamashtu, and other times they can be Divine Beings that fell from grace and became corrupted into something sinister like the Greco-Roman God Pan with his goat head becoming the iconic image for the Christian Devil.
Perhaps we're witnessing something similiar happen with the God of Abraham? A lot of modern types don't seem to think highly of him anymore and seem him and his followers as a symbol of ignorance, hatred, and bigotry.
People are either turning to alternative new age beliefs like neopaganism or even satan ism or they are simply becoming atheists.
But Christianity and even Judiasm have taken a hit no doubt in recent years because their morals and values dont translate well into modern times.
So in a way you are right, God aka "Yahweh" is becoming Demonized.
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Perhaps we're witnessing something similiar happen with the God of Abraham? A lot of modern types don't seem to think highly of him anymore and seem him and his followers as a symbol of ignorance, hatred, and bigotry.
People are either turning to alternative new age beliefs like neopaganism or even satan ism or they are simply becoming atheists.
But Christianity and even Judiasm have taken a hit no doubt in recent years because their morals and values dont translate well into modern times.
So in a way you are right, God aka "Yahweh" is becoming Demonized.
I agree with your take there, but what I'm saying is more straightforward, that since YHWH and Ba'al appear to be the same entity, the YHWH cult can't demonize the latter without it being an admission about the former.
You could replace YHWH and Ba'al with Jupiter and Zeus. A Jupiter worshipper can't demonize Zeus without that also being a comment on Jupiter; even if they insist Jupiter is a totally distinct being he really isn't.
Today, 9:54 am
That's another good point too. In fact from what I understand about Judiasm the Jewish don't view God and The Devil as seperate sworn enemies of "good and evil". The Devil is actually more like a servant of Yahweh whose job is to test faith. So in that sense God and The Devil (Baal, Beezlebub, Satan, Lucifer, Lilith, etc whatever they call it) really ARE one in the same. Because in the Jewish faith good and evil all came from their idea of one creator deity.
So yeah, we can agree on that. 
Today, 11:01 am
All very good and all , myths have their places , but as the older movie called it , And the book it was made from Starring Harrison Ford. , given the present day circumstances ,regarding mr Rump we actually have a real life
"Clear and Present Danger "by Tom Clancy . Its almost like theater art ( fiction ) reflecting real life. 
