I always figured in the story that really, since the adversary was the first one banished, he would probably not be so much occupied with the torture of others. Probably be like, “Welcome to the Shit Show.” Assuming you even ran into him. Place is probably pretty full by now.
The Christian Hell mythology is contradictory because it’s almost entirely fanfiction, and a much more modern fanfiction than you’d think, particularly in regards to Satan’s role.
The long and short of it is that, if you assume the Bible is an authority on such things, Hell isn’t this major thing where most people end up because they didn’t believe correctly, it’s not a physical thing at all, much less a thing populated by torturing demons, and Satan wouldn’t be in charge, or the Warden, or anything like that. He’d be a prisoner too.
Even in Inferno, Dante depicts him as imprisoned in ice.
I always figured in the story that really, since the adversary was the first one banished, he would probably not be so much occupied with the torture of others. Probably be like, “Welcome to the Shit Show.” Assuming you even ran into him. Place is probably pretty full by now.
The Christian Hell mythology is contradictory because it’s almost entirely fanfiction, and a much more modern fanfiction than you’d think, particularly in regards to Satan’s role.
The long and short of it is that, if you assume the Bible is an authority on such things, Hell isn’t this major thing where most people end up because they didn’t believe correctly, it’s not a physical thing at all, much less a thing populated by torturing demons, and Satan wouldn’t be in charge, or the Warden, or anything like that. He’d be a prisoner too.
Even in Inferno, Dante depicts him as imprisoned in ice.