Susan Brassfield wrote:
>it would be trivially easy to prove conclusively that all Christians
>worshiped Satan. (Only the middle eastern religions like Christianity have
>Satan as a component, "Lucifer" means "light" and Christ repeatedly refers
>to himself using "light" metaphors, etc.)
'Lucifer' [light-bearer] was an epithet of the king of Babylon when it fell.
Wartime propaganda vilified him to the extent that he was identified
with the devil himself. This is pure happenstance and has nothing to
do with the nature of Christianity. What culture anywhere does not use
light to symbolize good?
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com
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