PassoverHaggadah – The Fall Of Satan:Satan, the greatest of the angels in heaven, with twelve wings, instead of six like all the others, refused to pay heed to the behest of God, saying, Thou didst create us angels from the splendor of the Shekinah, and now Thou dost command us to cast ourselves down before the creature which Thou didst fashion out of the dust of the ground! God answered, Yet this dust of the ground has more wisdom and understanding than thou. Quran -Chapter 7:12:[ Allah ] said, What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you? [Satan] said, I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay. The story goes that man proved himself over “super” Satan by his “wisdom and understanding.” He rose above via an ethos of knowledge, intellect and inspiration, being able to name the animals by God’s guidance which the tribalist Satan couldn’t. This is the first account in narrated history of discriminatory judgment and a sense of superiority based on racial attributes. The devil was the first racist or ethnocentric. He was the first individual to demand and desire preferential roles simply due to his perceptible nature. And ever since, those who desire, demand and think they deserve some form of unique treatment, opportunities or insulation simply because of the color of their skin, their social class or their hereditary origins, take after Lucifer.
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