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RoboXgp89 posted...

hell is taken from a norse word hel, for a place that is very cold where murderers end up

That is actually wrong. The Norse 'Hel' actually refers both to the goddess, who is the daughter of Loki and described as half-white, half black, and for the realm in which she lives where average people die. There is absolutely no description of this place and it is neither a heaven or hell analog.

More importantly, the Norse concept of murder would not line up with what you are saying. Killing another person was actually justifiable in some circumstances (revenge, battle, holmgang/duel) and in many cases simply going to the nearest town and declaring the killing was enough to remove the charge of murder. That's not to say there was no murder and no rules (mostly they had to do with killing people who you justifiably had a reason to be fighting), but it is absolutely nothing like our concept.

So yeah, wrong on every point.

RoboXgp89 posted...

going back satan is a pre-christian god, any trait that a demon would have is pre-judeo christian
so it's not necessarily inhuman it's just not 'good'

Judeo actually refers to the Jewish beliefs, so the concept of Satan and his fallen angels are not 'pre-Judeo'. More importantly, if we are following the Bible, God set out a clear moral guide of what was good and what was evil pretty early on.

Now, what gets sticky when you start attributing traits to demons is which demons are you talking about? Both the Old Testament and the New Testament contain demons. The word demon has been used to refer to several creatures from other religions and mythologies (Oni, Jotun, Djinn, etc). Demonology is more of a literary study than a hard science, and has pretty much been considered a pseudo-science since it was popularized in the renaissance.

RoboXgp89 posted...

there was once a god called moloch who people sacrificed their first born for because they were told they would get riches(one less mouth to feed probably) so moloch was the idol they brought the baby to

The child sacrifices to Moloch have long since been disproved. The references were likely Roman propaganda and the actual children in question were likely already dead or stillborn and the burning of them was actually a funeral custom.

RoboXgp89 posted...

theres the plagues of egypt which call into account the holy ghost killing the first born son of every house without lambs blood
there's abraham being told to sacrifice his son and then him disagreeing and God saying 'i was just messing with you' to seperate himself from the earlier gods

And what does that have to do with demons?

RoboXgp89 posted...

the act of eating animals is kind of demonic in a way if there are other means to eat, like eating eggs, nuts or maybe milk instead. plenty of ways to get protein but humans still eat animals because well we're demons

No it's not. It's the easiest way for most of us to get protein. It's how we and all other carnivores evolved. Any way describing that as 'demonic' is pure equivocation.