On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:59:57AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > For a different, somewhat postmodern take on angels and demons, see the > > roleplaying game _In Nomine_, published by Steve Jackson Games, which can > > be played as pure good angels vs. evil demons, with complete moral > > ambiguity, with demons as heroic rebels against the repression of heaven, > > or anything else inbetween. > > Or read Stephen Brust's _To Reign in Hell_, which posits an alternative > explanation of the creation of the world, the nature and causes of the > conflict between the angels under Yahweh and those under Satan, and the > origin of humankind.
Sounds a lot like a plot in very early issues of 1980s of Hellblazer, a comic which by the way is being made into a movie with Keanu Reeves (it's being filmed as we speak). http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/movie/ [Heaven is oppressive, right-wingers are malevolent, world saved by the paganists/hell. Subtheme: civil war in hell. Good stuff.] I personally liked an issue of "Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children": Sympathy for the Devil. Satan's real name is Wally. He's a nice enough fellow, if it wasn't for all the assholes that keep showing up asking him what to do. Wally's a friend of mine, he's a brother :-)