Discussion: Crowley's Fall
Hmm, you know, I haven't seen any general GO discussion threads started here in a long time. So here's a topic I've long been curious about, for your debating pleasure:
Why exactly did Crowley Fall?
The book tells us he didn't mean to (I can't imagine any of the rebel angels intended that outcome!) and that he'd hung around with the wrong people. So what was his involvement in the rebellion?
Somehow I can't picture him actually taking up arms against other angels, even in a moment of confusion or panic. I also can't imagine that merely being on friendly terms with rebels was enough to damn him, in and of itself--I seem to recall reading that anywhere from one-third to half the angels supposely Fell, so there can't have been many faithful angels in Heaven who weren't. There had to have been some actual transgression on Crowley's part, even if Crowley himself is in denial about it.
My guess is he never had any intention of rebelling, never picked up a weapon, probably never spoke out against the Almighty or had any desire to see Him overthrown or replaced--but he may have seen one of his friends getting slapped around by Michael and his boys, or watched the first rebels being cast down, and said (or even just thought,) "Hey, that's not fair. They don't deserve that." Judging God, perhaps entertaining the idea that He could actually be wrong or unjust, at least in this particular matter.
Or maybe he got stubborn and refused to renounce the rebels, or some of them, even though he disagreed with what they were doing. Though I don't particularly like that idea, since it's pretty clear he has no particular friends or allies among the other demons, so that loyalty would have been all the more horribly misplaced--unless it wasn't loyalty at all, but simply optimism that they were all reasonable people and it would surely blow over given time.
Thoughts, opinions, pet theories?
Why exactly did Crowley Fall?
The book tells us he didn't mean to (I can't imagine any of the rebel angels intended that outcome!) and that he'd hung around with the wrong people. So what was his involvement in the rebellion?
Somehow I can't picture him actually taking up arms against other angels, even in a moment of confusion or panic. I also can't imagine that merely being on friendly terms with rebels was enough to damn him, in and of itself--I seem to recall reading that anywhere from one-third to half the angels supposely Fell, so there can't have been many faithful angels in Heaven who weren't. There had to have been some actual transgression on Crowley's part, even if Crowley himself is in denial about it.
My guess is he never had any intention of rebelling, never picked up a weapon, probably never spoke out against the Almighty or had any desire to see Him overthrown or replaced--but he may have seen one of his friends getting slapped around by Michael and his boys, or watched the first rebels being cast down, and said (or even just thought,) "Hey, that's not fair. They don't deserve that." Judging God, perhaps entertaining the idea that He could actually be wrong or unjust, at least in this particular matter.
Or maybe he got stubborn and refused to renounce the rebels, or some of them, even though he disagreed with what they were doing. Though I don't particularly like that idea, since it's pretty clear he has no particular friends or allies among the other demons, so that loyalty would have been all the more horribly misplaced--unless it wasn't loyalty at all, but simply optimism that they were all reasonable people and it would surely blow over given time.
Thoughts, opinions, pet theories?