While the plot is obviously improbable even the most amateur demonologist knows that fell deities are not easily moved by human whims—I found myself most skeptical about the fact that the MC never even considers sleeping with all, or at least most, of the hell-princes as a kind of last hurrah.
But given a deity who falls considerably short of omnipotence, omniscience, and moral perfection, but who could intervene in our world to prevent many evils, and who knows of those evils, it would seem that an argument rather similar to the above could be formulated by focusing not on the mere existence of evil, but upon the existence of evils that such a deity could have prevented.
Their god Dagon, an agricultural fertility deity probably meaning "grain," fell to the ground whenever the ark was placed in close proximity to it; and, even more calamitous to them, the Philistines suffered from "tumours," probably the bubonic plague, wherever they carried the ark.
How did your deity or deities come to be?
However, the remnants of Baal have remained in the Islamic Middle East in the form of old temples devoted to the fallen deity.
In short, does any admission of difference between the world as common-sense experiences it and the divine cosmos as pantheism understands it amount to a concession either that there are aspects of experience which fall outside deity or aspects of deity which fall outside experience?
Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.
Half of Gamaria fell victim to the fury of the river; the villagers' offerings to the deities were not enough to calm it.
We fell in love with a $35 sterling silver necklace that featured two deity pendants and an inscribed ring.
While his father and some others fell asleep, mice, attracted by the offerings placed before the image of the deity, ran over the image, polluting it.
The chants told the story of Pele, Deity of the volcano Kilauea, who'd initially moved to Kauai with her relatives and fell in love with a man called Lohi'au.
