So is Baal Osiris? I have heard that Baal is Satan, as well as Nimrod, and Beelzebub. I am just trying to figure out who these figures are as I am reading about them. I mean how many names does the devil have?
Nimrod was just an ordinary dictator, not a supernatural being, as far as I am aware.
But I believe the gentiles all were deceived by demons, hence, “the gods of the gentiles are demons.” So, name any non-Christian deity and there is likely a demon involved.
This does not mean the people who follow that religion are devil worshippers. Devil worship is a particular and specific evil which most people throughout history have abhorred, hence the brutal genocide of the Yazidis by Muslims, because the Muslims, whose idea of who God is is so wrong they are basically worshipping whichever demon impersonated Archangel Gabriel and posessed, inspired or otherwise interacted with Mohammad, on the mere false rumor that Yazidis worship the devil.
Even the most diabolical Pagan diety I am aware of, the Hindu goddess Kali, has positive attributes intended to elicit devotion.
Only a handful of really sick individuals throughout history have become deluded to the point where they actually worshipped the devil. Some of the followers of Anton La Vey, but not according to La Vey, but the man was a pathological liar. Jack Parsons, a rocket scientist who was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Lab, was seriously into the occult and together with L Ron Hubbard, who later cheated him out of massive amounts of money, engaged in an obscene ritual with a woman based on the writings of the British occultist Aleister Crowley which could be considered devil worship. Then we have Richard Ramirez, the terrible serial killer known as “The Night Stalker.” That it is difficult to identify definite examples before recent centuries shows how small the percentage of intentional devil worshippers is.
In Zoroastrianism, however, the word the Hindus use for divine beings is used to refer to devils, and Zoroastrianism and Hinduism are in many respects opposite each other. There are enough parallels between Zoroastrianism and Judeo-Christianity that I think it possible Zoroaster was a failed prophet, or that he corrupted an earlier religion that was of a true nature, since Noah and his sons did worship our God, and we know there were holy priests in an ancient religion, such as Melchizedek, to which Abraham adhered, and this religion we can deduce is contiguous with ancient Hebraism, pre-Christian Judaism (which had become corrupt and was on the verge of disappearing when our Savior was born), and Christianity.
