God versus Ialdabaoth: The Essence of Evil

There have always been those who are attracted to the ‘Dark Side’, usually as an act of rebellion or through ignorance. Sometimes, a simple misunderstanding can be enough to divert an otherwise logical person’s morality to malelovance.But what if the real evil is almost universally worshipped as good? What if, through centuries of persecution, the mephitic has subdued the majority into a numbed, blind belief of which any questioning incurs retribution?An odd state of affairs was posed to me recently concerning a young lady’s slip into the darker realms. Through misguided counsel, the young lady in question began to associate with atruly heinous figure, namely, one Ialdabaoth.

For reasons unclear at the present, her adopted (or perhaps imposed) circle of friends led her to a bizarre form of “Gnosticism”.. they presented her with the infamous celebrity of the Demiurge, the Creator of the Physical, and she embraced him with open arms. This acceptance of Chaos, illusion and insane jealousy was chosen for all the wrong reasons (if there ARE any right ones). Little does she realize it but this young lady has chosen, unwittingly, to worship the God of Jews and Christians alike. The Judeo-Christian God, evil? I hear you cry. Never! He is the God of forgiveness and love! Nay, reply I – he is the same as Ialdabaoth: an aberrant, abhorrent, genocidal maniac. But it is the devil that is evil, you retort. And in that, you arewrong. We do not even have to resort to the Gnostic gospels or any other arcane literature to see this. Got a Bible handy? Jehovah, the self-proclaimed god of the Israelites (and of no other tribe, let’s make that clear), appeared a few thousand years ago, according to the Bible. For the sake of argument, I’ll ignore the fact that his name changes and that he goes from being plural (Elohim) to singular (El), and that his main preoccupation is that his tribe does not worship any other gods, even though he repeatedly states that he, as an Omnipotent Deity, exists alone. No, I’ll skip that and instead compare what the God of Goodness has done, and what the foul Satan (his apparent opposite) has done. Again, for the sake of argument, I’ll not cite the different names and descriptions of the devil as that may confuse the reader intobelieving......