>>17673468Ancient symbolism. Remember the christian church, and christianity in general was built off a syncretism of gnostic cult fuckery, and wine cults.
Also no, mortals do not "gatekeep heaven", and most of them do not directly serve anything resembling the devil though their bosses may be malignant schizophrenic nerds.
When you think of glowies I want you to think of two types of people, that bullied kid in school you gave wedgies, and that empty headed kid who wanted to buy a sports car when he grew up.
Those are your glowies. The bullied, and the vain.
Not always bad, but uh... the ones that don't mean ill are liabilities by every proper judgement of the matter.
And the third type of personality is the kid who killed stray cats and lit rats on fire. Less of them than the other two but they're who you think of when you think of a sniper who would shoot a dude's wife during a cabin raid.
