(urth) Appearances of Inire

[António Pedro Marques]

John Watkins wrote:
> This is mistaken. The Gnostic posits that the demiurge is in fact the
> God of the Old Testament;

Only the jews, a very small part of the world's population, worshipped the 
God of the OT as such, and they certainly went to end talking about his 
wrath, jealousy and favouritisms, which aren't exactly benign traits.

> while it's at least consistent with
> Christianity to posit that the gods worshipped by various pagans are
> identifiable with devils.

Angelic beings, fallen or not, not necessarily devils.
But how many pagan gods considered evil by christians were not considered 
evil by their own worshippers? Many deities were worshipped out of fear. 
It's one thing to give worship to, other to consider good.
To worship and consider good something which actually is evil raises the bar 
quite a bit.