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Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

Sharkie posted:

Well I'm just curious about angels and wanted to learn and talk about them. But I guess where do guardian angels come from, what do we believe about them and why, that's a good place to narrow it down!

I think humans have evolved to pattern match everything and to have a sense of hierarchy in the group and developed the concept of protective spirits. So, they come from evolution.

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Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

Koos Group posted:

Well, obviously, but you characterized either guardian angels in general or angels in general as deeply heretical so I'd like to see more of your reasoning for it.

Check out the entry on The Bulgarian Heresy

https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heresies.html

e: This write-up on Milton's Paradise Lost is also on point

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707498

Bel Shazar fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Nov 22, 2022

Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

Epic High Five posted:

One may as well have a guardian postal worker.

I think you'll find that it's better to have a guardian postal worker...

https://www.nalc.org/community-service/carrier-heroes

Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i will say her idea of hell is alot like how i viewed it. just kinda of a shittier earth where everyone is an rear end in a top hat and various other creatures live there and its kinda just sucky and violent/exploitive. also i feel like if humanity has any agency there, we have probably already conquered parts of it.

Her version sounds like Earth

Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

DarkCrawler posted:

then his hippie son and his weird friend Paul

Paul didn't know Jesus... he just wrote a metric ton of fanfic about him.

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