If they were bad, of course, they would become devils. Sometimes the old gods were allowed to stay on and run their old territory but they were demoted to sainthood and honored only in the measure of their devotion to the Boss. One by one the old deities’ individual territories were taken over by the One God Syndicate. Basically, what Judeo-Christianity did was organize heaven as a conglomerate. It was the perfect opportunity for someone to move in and organize things.
But this God was regarded as so abstract, unknowable and even irrelevant to our petty learning problems as to require some divine in intermediaries who themselves had to answer to some higher logic.Īnyway, as time went by and planet got more crowded and civs bumped into and often destroyed one another, heaven tended to get mixed up a lot. Almost everywhere the gods were, there was the idea of One God, an ultimate deity. But that doesn’t mean that there was no idea of One God. It was still possible for a new operator to move in and carve out a piece of the action. There was still room for expansion and profit. At any rate, heaven was not exclusive turf, not virgin either. But when they were bad, head for the caves. When they were good, they were very, very good.
Though they were gods, they weren’t strictly “good” or “bad.” They were generally a mixture of both. Before Judeo-Christianity covered the globe, the divinity market was rife with small time operators, gods who specialized, doing a great job in a modest sphere.
He was developed and marketed by Judeo-Christians in much the same way that they first handled today’s God. Not that he’s a Jew or a Christian, or even their “opposites.” But that’s where he was first spotted. The Devil as he is known today comes out of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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