why are goats associated with satan?

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why are goats associated with satan?

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In Judaism, a goat would be symbolically given responsibility for the peoples’ sins and then abandoned in the wilderness. This is where we get the term “scapegoat” from. So goats were associated with sin, and associations with Satan naturally grew out of that. Since Abrahamic religions are major cultural influences in much of the world, this association is common worldwide.

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