Biblically Accurate Angels/ Be Not Afraid Analysis

Biblically Accurate Angels/Be Not Afraid Be not afraid, so saith the turning wheels of eyes, enflamed with righteousness. In this meme we see the outcome of generations of reductive Christianity. The meme shows a legitimately inhuman force, a glimpse at the divinity that had been seen by Christians aeons ago. Why is it such a surprise to us? In the West, especially in the protestant West, where all sense of Mystery has disappeared into a cold logic, there is no room for the bizarre, inhuman expressions of Divinity that populated the archaic vestiges of Christianity and other religions. The Winged humanoids we are familiar with are ironically the least Christian depiction of divine beings. They are in fact remnants of Paganism, which worshiped Humanoid forms that Nature Spirits took on, such as nymphs, satyrs, maenads, and of course the Gods themselves. As Christianity rejected Nature as the source of divinity, turning within, and to the complete without, they found what bizarre forms divinity could emb