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Podcast: Satan is my Superhero
Episode: Zoroaster and the Devil’s Origin Story
Description: Who invented Satan? If you said "the Bible," think again nerds! In this Origin Story Vol. 1 minisode, we go ancient, like really ancient and introduce you to Zoroaster, a Persian prophet who may have accidentally drawn up Satan’s first résumé.Before YHWH got possessive and the Christians started branding anyone with hobbies as a witch, Zoroaster was preaching about ONE god ‘Ahura Mazda’ and his cosmic nemesis, ‘Angra Mainyu’. This dualistic theology gave us some suspiciously familiar tropes: 🔥 a lake of fire 🐍 a fallen being who tempts h...