But then you’d have to take God and the Holy Ghost as metaphor, too, and golly gee, that just wouldn’t suit the flock at all.
Also, this. That said, some flavors of Christianity (Seventh-day Adventists, for one) place more weight on Satan as a real being attempting to sway people to the dark side, so there already seems to be a scale of metaphor applied to him? Her? It?
Wow. And every time I write about the peculiarities of religion it all seems so absolutely stupid to me that anyone believes this stuff.
