Favorite Quote
"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"- Mark Twain
He speaks of Lucifer (I prefer calling him Lucifer over Satan, it just sounds nicer) and I believe this quote to speak to the hearts of all humans. It didn't just change how I look at religion, it changed how I look at the world. When do we ever hear all the sides of every story to properly 'judge' how we should or should not feel about it? The Bible is all about God's story and we never get Lucifer's side. What if Lucifer was merely fighting for his own freedom but being a slave in service to God? What if he was fighting for our freedom, to prove to us that heaven isn't all its cracked up to be? Paradise is like a plantation; someone's got to work on it to make it beautiful and it certainly won't be the master. We can say living on this Earth is hell but we made it that way; we worked it into the ruin its becoming. Where is our common humanity? Only in disaster do we find it- like Katrina. That hurricane was the only reason we came together to help one another. Or the terrorist attacks in Paris- we stood up for them. We stood up for Notre Dame- but only because of a disaster. Why do we only come together in times of ultimate disaster? Where is our common humanity to come together now when no one is dying or in pain? Why can we not just be there for each other all the time? That is what is wrong in the world today. Humans are conquerors and pros at taking slaves because God did it first. God let Lucifer keep his strength in hell so he could purposely endure it, so that Lucifer and his Fallen could do the 'evil' work God meant for them to do. God conquered them and made them his slaves, and Lucifer merely fought for our freedom. Why worship a God who says 'love me or burn'? Where is the love our world needs in that?
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