Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to “undo the curse that was just put on our city.”
An Iowa man has kicked off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse.”
That’s fan fiction, it’s from Paradise Lost, not from biblical canon
TY! TIL.
Corrected, or at least acknowledged.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the old testament.
IMHO it’s all fanfic.
Technically, all stories are made up, be they prose or poetry.
The Bible is the canon story so Milton would be fanfic.
If the Bible was fanfic, it implies the canon lies elsewhere. I consider it a fantasy epic, but a really really dull one. It’s like someone thinking Harry Potter is non-fiction - you’d have to be special to think it happened.
Wasn’t it the Council of Nicea (or something like that) that more or less assembled the Christian Bible as we know it today? Which means there’re a bunch of stuff that didn’t make it in.
Some of which appears in Jewish scriptures and in Islamic scriptures or lost to time.
If it’s written by fallible men, and edited by fallible men, then its “Canon” isn’t worth shit.
Don’t forget that when you translate it from the original, you make choices about which words to use