But he taught the women something too: how to use cosmetics and specifically kohl, a black eye product popular since ancient times. At their head was an angel called Lucifer, Azazel, or Lumiel, and he's the one that taught men how to make armor so that, you know, it took a little more effort to kill each other. Originally, New Dawn Magazine notes, it was said that there were 200 fallen angels that headed to earth to cause some serious havoc. They were to be condemned to the ends of the earth, and punishment was definitely going to be a big part of their version of eternity. We do know that Enoch was the one God selected to act as an intermediary to the fallen angels, instructing him to tell them what their punishment would be for their transgressions. (It's also worth noting that Les Enluminures says Noah is the great-grandson of Enoch.)Įnoch, the story says, tried to speak on behalf of the angels and their giant children - but sadly, a lot of the texts are missing. The angels started teaching their giant offspring evil ways, and God not only imprisoned them, but subjected them to judgment and sent the flood to hit the reset button on his creations. Those children were the sons and daughters of 200 angels, and they were a race of 450-foot-tall giants. (The story also shows up in Genesis, but in less detail.) Before the Great Flood, angels and humans met and mingled pretty commonly, and the inevitable happened: children. By the end I was so angry I wished I’d brought a big samurai sword so that I could have gone on a ‘slaughter-a-whining-lefty’ spree.According to the Gnostic Society Library, the Book of Enoch tells the tale of angels who are destroyed by lust.
“We live in an age when 50% of kids go to university, books cost less to buy than the return bus fare for two people to go to the library and whenever I leave the UK, everyone raves about our amazing history of kids’ books and kids’ writers. “These critical, earth-shattering, problems they were all rambling on about actually seemed trivial to the point of me not really giving a damn,” he wrote at the time. The comments, also written on Facebook, were made after an event at the Southbank where Muchamore’s fellow authors Patrick Ness, Michael Rosen and Francesca Simon had spoken on issues including closing libraries and Michael Gove’s approach to education.
Last year, Muchamore caused a storm after he dismissed concerns about closing libraries as “trivial” and expressed a wish to go on a “slaughter-a-whining-lefty” spree. In particular I offended some long-term gay/bi fans who I consider personal friends and basically feel like an ass for doing so.” “I DO wish to apologise for my idiotic comment that these women were ‘lesbians because they were ugly and had short hair’ and for any offence caused. Their behaviour was hateful and offensive to me. I do not support the women who stood in the street calling me a rapist and I am not apologising to them. And they’re basically right, but whatever you think about me at least some real people will benefit and hopefully accept that my apology will be more than just words,”, adding: “Just to make it ABSOLUTELY clear. He wrote: “Lots of people will still call me a bigoted, selfish asshole, and say I’m trying to buy my way out of a hole and so forth. He is therefore donating £10,220 – £1 for each of his Twitter followers – to four groups, starting with the Kaleidoscope Trust, “because they campaign for gay people in countries like Nigeria and Gambia where just being gay means you can go to prison”, and the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland, because he “never knew that people in Northern Ireland didn’t have the same rights as others in the UK”.
Muchamore, whose novels about a group of teenage intelligence agents have sold more than 7m copies around the world, said that “rather than try to justify myself or drone on about what a nice guy I am, and how I have lots of gay friends and write books full of positive gay role models”, he “thought it would be better to make an actual difference to the lives of LGBT people”. Late yesterday, Muchamore apologised “to everyone I pissed off”, describing the comment as a “cheap shot” and saying that he “was venting because I was extremely pissed off about being shouted at and called a rapist by a group of protesters when I went to see Fifty Shades of Grey”. Muchamore’s fellow children’s novelist James Dawson, who recently published a non-fiction guide for LGBT young people, This Book is Gay, added : “I am disappointed to see a role model for so many young people, use homophobic language on his public Facebook. “Just removed from my ‘books I need to buy my kids’ list,” wrote the comedian Dom Joly on Twitter in response. He took the comments down after they attracted heavy criticism.