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⌈ Secret Post #2752 ⌋

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[Fargo]

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[Orange is the New Black]

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[Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton]

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[DS9, Far Beyond the Stars]

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[Starsky & Hutch]

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[Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails]

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[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]

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[Galerians]

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[Penny Dreadful]

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[The Wolf Among us/Enslaved]

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[Wes Craven's Scream franchise]

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[One Piece]

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Well, it's tricky, because it really doesn't reflect the themes of the rest of the Bible. For one book--only one--God is suddenly someone who makes bets with the devil about how bad he can torment one human? I think it's a weird inclusion in the canon to start with.

Yeah. Honestly, it reads like something from a completely different religion to me. (I know, religions evolve, but they tend to be more consistent than that.)

Themes... If you're speaking of the Deuteronomical rules, I think it was an intended shift from that (or whoever arranged the books and decided the Apocrypha should be in there). As in, the reward doesn't always reflect the deed, but you should still do good deeds for the sake of doing good deeds.

But yeah, God's a total dick in there. Then again, he isn't very nice to some of the other humans in the Bible either. And let's not even get into what he does to his own kid.

Right, but... which KIND of dick is what's the problem. Yeah, God is awful to a lot of people, but always because he's really strict and horrible about his rules, even when they seem unfair. Being capriciously awful to someone based on a bet? That doesn't sound like the same character.

Like, okay, Cyclops is always kind of a dick in X-Men, right? But he's a dick in that he's uptight and really harsh on other people and is physically incapable of unclenching his buttcheeks. So suppose there's one issue, and only one issue, where Cyclops is being a dick to people by saying, "Whatever, caring about stuff is gay, you go do whatever, I'm just going to watch TV." You'd say that issue was weird and out of character. (Or that Cyclops is being mind-controlled or replaced by a shapeshifter, but that's X-Men for you.)

I suppose the actions are inconsistent with his usual ones.

But if God ever woke up one day and was like, "wait, do these humans actually give a shit about me, or do I have to make them PROVE it?" I could see him doing something nuts.

It's not actually the devil he makes a bet with, though, from what I've read. It does say "Satan" but supposedly that can also just mean "accuser." (OT God probably would've smote his ass or invited a new warrior to punish him, but I like to think this was a step to self-awareness, and he just handled it very badly.)

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