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So you're saying that the second-greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Georgia a fiddling contest would get rid of him?
I want that on a t-shirt 😄
I'm not a believer in any of the Bible, but I wouldnt mind a shirt that said God's greatest trick was convincing the masses that Lucifer tried to overthrow him out of jealousy and not because he was a tyrant. You can still find the mainstream propaganda pamphlets in every hotel nightstand.
Like it's a typical story of a tyrant it seems, then someone tries to better things, loses and history was written by the victor. In the mean time Lucifer actually left and made his own utopia somewhere where everyone is accepted with no demands of sacrifice or worship, no more plagues, and without issues like health issues or poverty.
And Heaven spent all their efforts convincing everyone their Utopia was bad and full of torture and fire. "They want things like reduced or removed healthcare prices, even lack of illnesses! That's like socialism or something"
That’s just Neil Gaiman’s Lucifer.
Except it has more elements of a family spat.
There’s a Netflix detective show called Lucifer all about. Weirdly it would technically be set in the American gods universe, but we only run into stuff from the Abrahamic Mythos.
Do they still do the Bible thing? Last couple hotels ive stayed in didnt have one.
Apparently it's slowly dying.
"Bibles are disappearing from hotel-room drawers around the country, according to a survey from STR, a hospitality analytics company. As AP reported in 2018, the survey found only 79 percent of U.S. hotels had Bibles in their rooms in 2016, compared to 95 percent in 2006."
Article ref: https://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/why-do-hotel-rooms-have-bibles