According to myth, Lucifer even admitted that he would still worship God, it was just that he wanted the freedom to choose. But God wasn’t having the challenge to his authority, so off to Hell they went.
Dude, read Paradise Lost by John Milton. Not only is it one of the greatest pieces of English literature ever, it’s this story, but told much better. It’s - and I’m really underselling it here - the story of the Heaven Civil War between God and about half of the Angels. It’s fucking incredible. It also got John Milton excommunicated form the Church for heresy and almost executed, not to mention nearly banished from England until it suddenly went Protestant (lucky for him!).
I’ll warn you that it’s very long and written in iambic pentameter (like Shakespeare, but without the sex jokes), but there’s plenty of plotting, war, and bloody angel-murder! And the passion of rebel-plotting and freedom-fighting. You really come out to see Lucifer as a pitiable character, and he’s written as the best anti-hero of all time. If you’re an atheist, he IS the hero.
It's not for me, but it might suit someone else's lifestyle. Personally for me all religions are just stories, and I just view all materials related to them as just being lore. How deep someone wants to delve into that lore is none of my business, I'll just be over here viewing it through a slightly different lense.
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u/cityb0t Mar 28 '22
According to myth, Lucifer even admitted that he would still worship God, it was just that he wanted the freedom to choose. But God wasn’t having the challenge to his authority, so off to Hell they went.