Monday, May 5, 2008

The Fate of Angels

Behold! A mildy heretical argument for the injustice of God.

Compare, if you will, the actions and wages of two prominent angels in Jewish myth: Gabriel and Satan. Both are servants of God. Both do exactly as He commands, to the letter. Yet at the end of days, Satan gets slaughtered (Mesekhta Sukkah 52a), while Gabriel, one assumes, continues to bask in the radiance of the Lord. Which sounds quite fun. Kinda like The Eternal Solarium. I wonder if you can catch cancer from the radiance of the Lord. . .

The challenge here, for the believers, is to justify the vast difference in treatment between two equally devoted servants of God. Non-believers, all you gotta do is try not to swallow your little novelty umbrellas as you sip your pre-ordered victory highballs.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

lol yitzi i remember that u used to use this argument with quite a few bible characters very fun to listen to the arguments, i lol at those who challenge the witticism and religious and atheist intellect of the unglamorously named yitzi tuvel. (you will lose the argument but it needs to be face to face other wise it is pointless)

Yitzi said...

Ya, and then the CSS voiceover goes, "HUMILIATION".

Unknown said...

Is that an ad hominem attack against God?

Unknown said...

:)

Unknown said...

'Which sounds quite fun. Kinda like The Eternal Solarium. I wonder if you can catch cancer from the radiance of the Lord. . . '