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Isabella Rodriguez
We know that Matt has a limited number of actual deities in his setting and prefers to have most people worships saints instead. Different saints representing different aspects of each deity and different factions of a deity's Church.
However, has Matt ever said anything about explicitly Evil deities such as Asmodeus? Does Asmodeus have saints? If so, are they still called "saints" or is there some unholy equivalent to a "saint"?
Even if there is no confirmed answer, what do you folks think would serve as an unholy equivalent to the word "saint"? Maybe it's just me and my real-life experiences, but Saint just has an inherently "good" vibe to it (I mean the word literally derives from the Greek word for "holy".)
Over the years, God has refined me and worked on my character. I am more Christ-like today than I was two decades, or even a month, ago. But I still have a long way to go. By fits and starts and baby steps God is still making this saint holy.
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But then we peer closer at this flawless and oft-painted portrait of our saintly forbearers and there in the background we begin to see the slight imperfections and false brushstrokes of iniquity. Ever so softly accentuated as an insignificant detail. Perhaps the artist hopes we will miss it in the busy background? But something else is not right, and so we hesitantly pick at a clumsily daubed, and strangely out of place, paint globule. And there revealed are images so vile and so incongruent with the rest of the painting that we recoil in disbelieving disgust. How can these images belong to the same painting?
When we step back, though, the painting has changed. We can no longer see it as before. The saint no longer holds a central place in the image. Instead our eyes are forcibly and repeatedly drawn to this incongruous abhorrence which a multitude of artists sought to deny or downplay. The entire picture now reshaped and redrawn by this unwilling revelation. Can we even hang this painting anymore? Should we read the works of a man such as this? Can this person even be said to be a Christian?
The biblical doctrine of sin is such that we should expect to find the darkest, most horrific of sin in even the greatest of saint. Sin so heinous, so wicked that it should cause us to question even their very salvation. Sin so deep, so destructive, that the only cure is the death of the Son of God himself. I know this to be true because that darkness, that evil lives in me. Only grace can save and transform a wicked, sin blackened heart like mine.
In fact, some saints seemed to specialise in casting out demons. A man called George brought his possessed son to the tomb of St. Gebhard and the boy was instantly cured, and in another callback to witchcraft (something that would certainly prepare medieval Europeans for the idea of shapeshifting witches) demons are frequently portrayed as appearing in the form of animals: lions, vultures, black dogs or Africans. They might even appear as a huge flock of malevolent birds, blocking out the sky.