“Sounds like a movie,” I said. Something Marvel would make. Starring Chris Pine as the angel.
“Men tell tall tales,” the rabbi replied. “Today as in the past.”
“So, you don’t believe in all this?” asked Justine. “In angels, in fallen angels, in demons?”
And there was his shrug again, his hand thrown out again, the pfeh again. “The story changes throughout time. The different religions take bits and pieces of it. They keep what they like, throw away what they don’t. For Christians, it gave the angels and demons too much prestige, equated them with a higher power.”
Justine nodded. “Only God should be worshiped. The first commandment, thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
The rabbi also nodded. “Angels had been worshiped for centuries. Venerated,” he said. “Satan still is, by some. T
