gladoscake wrote:
Makes sense, Demons hate bibles. Ha ha.
I'm not really sure where this idea came from. Catholic tradition?
In the Bible New Testament, Satanas (Satan), to-Diabolos (the-Devil), is described as quoting the Bible with great knowledge and familiarity, and is even criticized for his eagerness to quote it. (Like great knowledge is somehow a bad thing.) He is basically condemned for supposedly twisting or misquoting scripture, or otherwise distorting the spirit of the text even if he gets the letter of the text right.
Far from hating the Bible, he loves it. He loves that it is full of so much contradictory information that he can pick and choose whatever bits from it that he wants to support whatever point he wants to make at whichever point in time.
It's kinda like the rantings of would-be prophets like Nostradamus: if one rambles on long enough about enough different things, it's bound to say something that somebody later on will be able to point to as being profoundly true and prophetic. (Never mind all the other nonsensical or even false rantings, though.)
The Bible devil DOES mind all those other nonsensical and silly rantings. He uses them against Biblical heroes. And then they chastise him for it.
Which is why it doesn't make any sense for a demon to make Leila desicrate the Bible in this story. It doesn't make sense for a Biblical demon, at least.
Maybe it makes sense for a traditional Catholic demon though, I guess?
Although then I would have to wonder why Catholic priests have such bad luck with this particular demon in this movie series.
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