In the Bible, The Cherubims original purpose was to protect the garden of Eden.
The cherubim are supernatural beings who belong to a rank of angels, who is associated with
love and desire.
Early Christians and Greeks and Romans believed that the cherubim were responsible for attraction
and lust.
So what would the world be like if there were winged deities flying around making people
fall in love with each other?
Today, life’s biggest questions ask, what if the cherubim were real.
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So, what do cherubim’s look like?
Well, it really depends on who you ask.
Jews regarded them as youthful, human figures.
Christians believed cherubs had several wings and four faces.
The four faces were a human, representing humanity, a lion representing wild animals,
an ox representing domestic animals, and an eagle which represented birds.
They had straight legs and hooves.
Lately though, as in over the last few hundred years, the cherubim is most commonly associated
with Cupid.
Yep, that Cupid.
The chubby, winged angel boy that goes around shooting heart arrows at people, making them
fall in love.
Cupid has his origins in ancient Greek and Roman mythology, he’s likened to the Greek
deity, eros.
For the sake of familiarity, and frankly, fun.
We’re going to stick with the western Christian version of the cherubim for this episode of
LBQ.
Alright so, what if the cherubim were real?
To be quite frank, None of us would get anything productive done.
We would all be too preoccupied with our own sexual desires to do anything substantial
with our lives.
If the cherubim were real, there would essentially be little fat angel boys flying around making
everyone fall in love with each other.
Yeah, love is great and all, in the beginning, but damn does it turn sour real quick.
But hey, let’s put a pin in that and come back to it.
Cupid is the god of desire, attraction, affection, and erotic love.
He was the love child of Venus and the Roman god of war, mars.
Cupid is adorned with wings to symbolize how lovers often change their minds.
He’s depicted as a boy because love is irrational.
Cupid has two kinds of arrows.
One has a sharp golden point, another has a blunt lead tip.
Anyone who was shot by cupid’s golden arrow would become filled with uncontrollable desire.
Anyone who was hit by the blunt lead arrow feels the desire to run from love.
If the cherubim were real, at least you would have someone to blame your cold feet on.
If the Cherubim were real, they would make you fall in love with pretty much anyone.
And yes, that may include people that might seem unattractive at first glance.
Shakespeare said it best in A midsummer nights dream.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted
blind.
At the same time, there would be a lot more homosexuality and acceptance of homosexuality.
If everyone was doing it, people can’t very well judge others for doing it either.
That being said, despite everyone falling in love with each other, man and woman, woman
and woman, man and man, and everything in between, if the cherubim were real, it would
pretty much mean terrible things for anyone in a committed relationship.
Sure, hallmark makes cupid out to be an adorable naked baby for the sake of valentine’s day,
but in actuality, Cupid was kind of a dick.
In darker versions of the cherubim, Cupid is often regarded as a demon of fornication.
He can be a malicious trickster and is portrayed naked so as to not conceal his purpose.
A famous depiction of Cupid by Lucius Apuleius in the tale of Cupid and psyche said that
he was rash and hardy, with evil manners, with a contempt for public justice and law,
armed with fire and arrows, who ran up and down in the nights from house to house and
corrupting lawful marriages of every person.
So, Essentially, Cupid is a sociopath.
Married couples would cheat on each other all the time, and the divorce rate would skyrocket.
There would be a substantial amount of illegitimate children with psychological issues because
it's likely at least one of their parents would be absent when they grew up.
Also, pretty much everyone would have the clap.
Or some form of sexually transmitted infection.
Yep, the cherubim are love deities’ but if they were real, honest, true, forever love
would be even more scarce than it is now.
Let's just say it’s a good thing that the cherubim aren’t real.
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