[Blasphemous trope] Satan is hot

[u/no-Pachy-BADLAD]

Don't watch these at Sunday School

1) While a more sympathetic example than the below, Lucifer's tirle character still retains the CW bait (yes I know it's a Fox/Netflix show) crowd as he's busy solving crimes.

2) Mystery of the Kingdom of God was a 2021 Christian kids film that would've fallen into obscurity beyond fudnamentalist audiences if it wasn't for folks picking up on the Tumblr sexyman vibes of the film's devil.

3) The CEO of Hell Lucifer (or 'Lucy') is an intimidating persona also reflecting the creator's preference for women in business suits.

4) Le génie du mal ('The Spirit of Evil', sculpture on the right) was a sculpture by Guillame Geefs in 1848, meant to replace the sculpture on the left by his brother Joseph, criticised for its distracting beauty and 'unhealthy allure'. He didn't do a good job (or did a VERY good one) taking that into account.

[u/workieworkwork]

I don't think this is blasphemous, I think it is canonical.

[u/herrcollin → u/workieworkwork]

Canonically, The Adversary wasn't even a defined, singular being until the New Testament. It was more of a force that could mantle or be mantled by.. anyone, really. It was more of a concept or an element of nature.

The New Testament made it into an actual defined being but that's likely just from hundreds of years of spiritual and religious pondering, study and teaching between Old and New. The teachers realized the message digests better if The Satan was an actual individual. People are better at focusing their energies and ideas on a "person" rather than a spiritual force of evil.

To put it simply: They fanfic-ed Satan (the being) to get people invested in a more diagetic way.

And we all know if you're gonna fan-fic something.. you make them hot as fuck too hell yeah