Gabriel the new Lucifer?

One of my favorite movies is The Prophecy, starring Christopher Walken as Gabriel. Released in 1995, its one of the first movies I know that start referring to the Archangel Gabriel as the nemesis of man.
The idea here is that Gabriel gets sick of man not taking full advantage of there free will and scorning God for it. After all thats happened with the war against heaven and hell, people seem to be knowingly choosing hell. Gabriel decides waiting for the apocalypse just doesn't cut it for him, and its time he quick starts it. The Archangel Gabriel has fallen from grace and is now here to destroy us.
Beyond that though, the plot thickens. While this is causing another heavenly civil war similar to the fall of Lucifer, of those with Gabriel and those still loyal to man and God, there's also a third side. Lucifer (played amazingly by Viggo Mortensen) doesn't want Gabriel to win, "because two hells is one hell too many, and I can't have that." So, grudgingly, Lucifer helps man to overthrow Gabriel.
One movie doing this, not a big deal. But Since that, multiple other movies have come out with somewhat similar ideas. Most accessible are the sequels of the prophecy, Constantine, and Dogma. Dogma is a little different seeing as the devil plays less of a role, although we do get a sense that he's not happy about what Gabriel is doing. Constantine on the other hand takes the plot straight forward.

I think the movie has interesting implication. Gabriel and Lucifer for a long time have been symbols. Gabriel is a symbol for Christianity, or perhaps organized religion in its whole for the western world, and Lucifer representing science. With that in mind, Gabriel is betraying man, sick and tired of us and just wants to end us. In that light, its saying organized religion has betrayed us, has led us astray and left us to die. With growing bedgrudgement against religion, its hard not to think thats what the creators were saying with The Prophecy . But there's a second statement surrounding Lucifer's character. Lucifer tell us he isn't helping us because he wants to, "Y'see, I'm not here to help you and the little bitch because I love you or because I care for you,"but because he simply can't allow there to be more out there than him. If Lucifer is science, what does that say about science? Science is amoral, it doesn't give a damn what happens to us or if we understand us. It won't be here for our emotions or lack of security, it simply is there. We can use it, and it can use us...but thats all we'll get, abuse back and forth.

I find the statement hidden in the movie something amazing to think about. While Lucifer and Gabriel are the most obvious thinks pointing to this idea, the two main humans are also battling their own ideas of faith and it further presses this idea. At the least, its just an awesome movie, and Viggo Mortensen gives perhaps the best performance of Lucifer ever. Definitely an amazing movie.

*What does this have to do about the Peg Aloi article we had to read? Nothing. BUT, this was going to be my final paper. That didn't work out. Instead my final paper became a response to the article, and as such I bumped this idea to a blog post instead, just in case I don't already have 5+ posts.