Satanic Cope

It’s a take so edgy, it dates back to the 1st century AD. “Bruh, what if I told you God is a tightwad killjoy and the devil is actually a tragic hero?” The Western mind has never been more than a bong hit away from mistaking this minor absurdity for a shattering insight. Most recently, Amazon Prime has released a variation on the theme called Hazbin Hotel, in which the daughter of Lucifer and Adam’s mythical first bride, Lilith, fights on behalf of hell’s demons for redemption. Or something. Whatever. People have been grinding out remakes of this particular fanfic since the days when they had to do it on papyrus. The shelf life of Gnosticism is unmatched among heresies. Its contempt for the body and the material world has crept its way back into our psyches in the age of fillers, filters, and hormone injections.