Morning Star

[milo]

The good guy and the bad guy shift, depending on who's telling the story.  Michael could have toned his storytelling down a bit and not given the big guy such grand ideas, but sooner or later the gardener outgrows his garden.  

I like the fact that Michael is told that he will disobey and quake with fear -- every hero needs a nemesis to be brought low, and if one is not immediately to hand, one must be fabricated from whatever's convenient.  Michael led the armies against Lucifer and won a great victory, but he was too much competition for the capital-G (because he was "like God", after all), so his story was quieted and the enemy's rang out.  Do good work, but not too good, because that's a threat to absolute power -- even if you don't want it.

I believe I'm raving a little bit now.  I'm ok with that.

Yes to this and more even, yes to the parts you didn't bother to say. If it gets anyone to rave a bit, even better. Without free will there really is only 1 and without others you cannot actually be a god but with free will - oh the troubles!