[ Were he capable of reading minds, Lucifer would cheerfully argue some of those points.
He'd argue that angels should have been given the same option of free will as mortals. That if they had, perhaps now they wouldn't be so utterly rubbish at it when Yahweh decided he was done being 'Father of all' and moved on. That in this instance, their all seeing, omnipotent Father had missed a step.
Of course, there could be the argument in turn that Yahweh hadn't missed anything. That perhaps this was why he hadn't destroyed his disobedient son when Lucifer rebelled. That Yahweh had merely been placing his pieces upon the board, for an endgame eons in the making.
However, he can work with the questions that have been posed to him and Lucifer tutted softly. ]
Careful, little brother. Don't try to narrow down my actions to one motivating factor. I had plenty of reasons for doing what I did, going where I have; humanity has just proven to be a curious diversion.
[ Which was true, at least in the beginning. To be fair, he had recently been prepared to give up and go back to Hell when humanity had truly let him down, so it was all still a process. ]
I've found some of them, surprisingly, not useless. [ Father Frank for one. ] I've also found them capable of unimaginable cruelty, especially towards one another.
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He'd argue that angels should have been given the same option of free will as mortals. That if they had, perhaps now they wouldn't be so utterly rubbish at it when Yahweh decided he was done being 'Father of all' and moved on. That in this instance, their all seeing, omnipotent Father had missed a step.
Of course, there could be the argument in turn that Yahweh hadn't missed anything. That perhaps this was why he hadn't destroyed his disobedient son when Lucifer rebelled. That Yahweh had merely been placing his pieces upon the board, for an endgame eons in the making.
However, he can work with the questions that have been posed to him and Lucifer tutted softly. ]
Careful, little brother. Don't try to narrow down my actions to one motivating factor. I had plenty of reasons for doing what I did, going where I have; humanity has just proven to be a curious diversion.
[ Which was true, at least in the beginning. To be fair, he had recently been prepared to give up and go back to Hell when humanity had truly let him down, so it was all still a process. ]
I've found some of them, surprisingly, not useless. [ Father Frank for one. ] I've also found them capable of unimaginable cruelty, especially towards one another.