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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

I mean (many of) the earliest Bibles were in Coptic (which is still used liturgically by some of the oldest Orthodox churches). Christianity also really inherited that form of dualism more from the Zoroastrians so Avestan is another great option. But if you want to come from the Judaic roots yeah babylon was the origin of the major opposing deities in Judaism's early monolatrist perspective so especially if you're fighting the Abrahamic God with Baal that would be your main pick.

Side Rant: It really cannot be overstated how much the Catholic church really fucked up Christianity. It was originally a syncretistic anti imperialist death cult (in that you would martyr yourself by publicly accepting death over imperialism). If I ever got a time machine Athanasius of Alexandria is much higher on my list than Hitler. It's not even that I'm specifically opposed to trinitarianism—the number three does seem significant to some universal truth across numerous cultures (Plato's chariot, Taoist three elements of destiny, even Freud to name a few)—but killing people en masse over it is unspeakable. And to have subsequent traditions who were supposedly otherwise anti-catholic in any other respect still specifically follow in the tradition of murder for some reason is ridiculous.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.

The New Testament was written in Koine Greek.

The Copts speak a descendant language of Egyptian.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Personally I'm more of a Peter was a Roman plant meant to subvert early Christianity into something more friendly to the Romans. So I'd just go and make sure Peter drowns or something. Either that or ensure that the Cult of Sol Invicta becomes dominant and ensuring Aurelian survives, mostly out of spite.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I was thinking more that Satan, as we know the entity is largely a product of creation grafted onto older things all hodgepodge.

No reason said entity couldn't adopt older languages if it was real, obviously.

But, in terms of Satanists, they're such a comparatively modern thing that them using Latin makes sense for multiple reasons