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Old 06-29-2011, 11:56 AM   #38
Matthias Wasser
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Boston
Default Re: And ye shall know the Truth ...

"God" seems to designate a couple of unrelated things:

1) The Symphony as a whole,
2) A literal deus ex machina that intervenes in Archangelic politics,
3) A poetic stand-in for the same things people use it as a poetic stand-in IRL, at least when they don't mean anything in particular by it.

I think the setting is stronger if you drop the whole God thing, frankly.

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Originally Posted by Acolyte View Post
Is the Babel event IN canon (such as Eden and the like)?
I liked the spin Demon: the Fallen gave it - Babel was a project by the rebel angels to nurture and build up a human civilization based on their values, and it was ultimately smashed by the Host for that reason. IMC, liberal democratic capitalism is Babel 2.0.

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