What are angels for?

What are angels in Supernatural for? Obviously they weren't always soldiers, so what was their purpose during the golden age?

Demons in SPN are corrupted humans. Therefore there haven't always been demons to fight.

Lucifer, rather than being the adversary, was once the awesomest angel in heaven. Therefore there wasn't always an intra-angel fight.

The pagan gods seem more like demi-gods, and aren't a match for angels at full strength. Therefore overpowered angels weren't created to deal with them.

SPN's God seems to have been playing a long game, but what did he intend for his angels until the wars came? Are they an experiment? Guardians of something? An exercise in vanity? Seriously, what's the deal?


Answers are extremely Relevant To My Interests, and the deathfic I've mentioned working on.

Help Haiti

Signal boost for Help Haiti, a fandom fundraiser for relief and aid agencies operating in Haiti.

Help Haiti is auctioning off fannnish goods and services (fanart, fanfic, meta, editing services, podcasts, podfic, crafts, food etc.), in exchange for donations.

Auction winners can donate to the following organizations:

DirectRelief
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
Portlight Strategies
Red Cross
Red Cross Red Crescent
OXFAM America
OXFAM UK
MercyCorps
American Friends Service Committee

Our role in Haiti's plight

Our Role In Haiti's Plight, Peter Hallward
http://www.guardian.co.uk

Worth a read:

Haiti is now a country where, according to the best available study, around 75% of the population "lives on less than $2 per day, and 56% – four and a half million people – live on less than $1 per day". Decades of neoliberal "adjustment" and neo-imperial intervention have robbed its government of any significant capacity to invest in its people or to regulate its economy. Punitive international trade and financial arrangements ensure that such destitution and impotence will remain a structural fact of Haitian life for the foreseeable future.

It is this poverty and powerlessness that account for the full scale of the horror in Port-au-Prince today. Since the late 1970s, relentless neoliberal assault on Haiti's agrarian economy has forced tens of thousands of small farmers into overcrowded urban slums. Although there are no reliable statistics, hundreds of thousands of Port-au-Prince residents now live in desperately sub-standard informal housing, often perched precariously on the side of deforested ravines. The selection of the people living in such places and conditions is itself no more "natural" or accidental than the extent of the injuries they have suffered.

As Brian Concannon, the director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, points out: "Those people got there because they or their parents were intentionally pushed out of the countryside by aid and trade policies specifically designed to create a large captive and therefore exploitable labour force in the cities; by definition they are people who would not be able to afford to build earthquake resistant houses." Meanwhile the city's basic infrastructure – running water, electricity, roads, etc – remains woefully inadequate, often non-existent. The government's ability to mobilise any sort of disaster relief is next to nil.