Chapter 48 Lucifer’s Dilemma
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Lucifer felt uncomfortable over the things that had happened. Although he could see the reason why Abraham wanted to eradicate the homosexuals the way it had played out was indefensible. The orbital lasers were powerful and could incinerate a man in seconds; it would have been a clean and almost painless death. Instead, Abraham chose to roast the condemned ones for hours on end for no other reason than obvious sadistic ones.
And the solution was senseless. If Abraham wanted to eradicate the problem, he could have killed all the homosexuals at once. Instead, he murdered one-fifth of them and gave the others a death sentence by proclaiming that 60 homosexuals should be killed every year. The knowledge that they were condemned and would be executed in a year or two was worse than a swift death, and Lucifer pitied the condemned homosexuals.
Lucifer had answered Yehuda’s calls and visited the devastated man afterwards. He was heartbroken and had cursed Lucifer. Lucifer should have punished Yehuda for this, as cursing or disrespecting an angel was a grave crime. But Lucifer chose to not punish the "old man". Fortunately, no outsiders witnessed Lucifer's failure to punish Yehuda for his insolence, so there was no reason to escalate the matter.
Lucifer pitied Yehuda for his loss and Simon for the way he died. Simon was a good kid, just passing adolescence with his whole life ahead of him. Instead, he was punished with an excruciatingly painful death due to his s****l desires, something that was predetermined by his genes and not controllable from his end. Simon’s punishment was very cruel considering he was unaware that he was committing a crime. Lucifer felt guilty for disregarding Simon's homosexuality as a non-issue when Yehuda had begged for his help, but there was nothing that Lucifer could have done about it.
The only "cure" for homosexuality was to change the genetic structure of the individual. This was incredibly difficult to do even on Earth and involved cryogenically freezing the individual to prevent cell death or cell division and then individually change every cell. Thus, it took years to alter the genome of an adult individual, and all genetic modification took place on embryos when it was easier to implant desirable human traits.
Lucifer had never understood other humans' obsession with sexuality. All the angels had similar genetics when it came to sexuality; they were mostly asexual with just a slight inclination towards heterosexuality. For as long as Lucifer had known Abraham, Abraham had not shown much interest in s*x. But considering the amount of offspring Abraham had; this was probably age-related. Being 200 years younger than Abraham, Lucifer had never seen him before he started using DNA regenerating technology.
What also bothered Lucifer was that none of the other angels seemed to be disturbed by the events they had seen. Lucifer could not tell if they did not mind being part of inhuman atrocities or whether it was a defence against the Abraham’s anger. Regardless Lucifer felt the need to process what he had seen, but there was no one to talk to. He felt lonely and left out, and even considered leaving Eden and returning to Earth. But what would he do there? Lucifer had never been alone or outside his group of fellow angels. The fear of leaving it all behind was stronger than the fear of what he had become. Lucifer decided to cryogenically sleep for a long time. The sleep would clear his mind, and the terrors he had seen seemed less real once he woke up…
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