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by larodi 619 days ago
Of course we should also be well aware of what penguins love to do:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-...

And it was long kept a secret.

From where I come from there is a saying which goes like ‘Good thing you pulled the small devil’ (and not the big one, implied).

Besides satanism or sheitanism as far as I know, is only objectified as the horn-y thing within a Christian (ok, Abrahamic to include Old Testament and Islam) framework. A thing with horns and a fork is not necessarily within this framework.

Should you want to look further, go take a look at Kali or potentially many other Hindu deities showing here and there as mascots. These are no entities to joke with, and humility is not part of this tradition.

So I say, leave small devil do his wonderful work and all the wonderful people who have us FreeBSD and as consequence Darwin, iOS, the TCP/IP stack and many more.

The disguise of actual Satan, should we agree is a thing, is never so obvious. And typically has more humane look, very often wears Prada.

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I remember seeing Muslim and Jewish descriptions of the Devil in various stories, they didn't particularly look like a horned man with a pitchfork. Not sure where that comes from.