In "Satan: A Biography" (Cambridge Press), Henry Ansgar Kelly puts forth the most comprehensive case ever made for sympathy for the devil, arguing that the Bible actually provides a kinder, gentler version of the infamous antagonist than typically thought.
"A strict reading of the Bible shows Satan to be less like Darth Vader and more and more like an overzealous prosecutor," said Kelly, a UCLA professor emeritus of English and the former director of the university's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. "He's not so much the proud and angry figure who turns away from God as [he is] a Joseph McCarthy or J. Edgar Hoover. Satan's basic intention is to uncover wrongdoing and treachery, however overzealous and unscrupulous the means. But he's still part of God's administration."
The view runs in opposition to the beliefs held by many Christians and others about key religious concepts like original sin and the nature of good and evil.
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What The Devil? Prince Of Darkness Is Misunderstood
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I see.
If Satan is just an "overzealous prosecutor" he'd better check his retirement plan.
Last time I checked, being tossed into a lake of fire for all eternity was considered a really bad thing.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
As was being eaten by a wolf dressws a grandma and other fables
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996/</a><br />
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Good thing for us there's Country & Western music........<br />
<p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
- Justice Louis Brandeis
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
She or he?
It's hard for me to imagine a supernatural entity having the need for sexual organs.
It's hard for me to imagine a supernatural entity having the need for sexual organs.<<
"It"? Christians refer to their god as "Father"
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
Those we lock up..............those possessed by the Devil we "cure" (or worship).
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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis
(billy joel)
or the original,
'Better to Rule in Hell than serve in Heaven'
- Satan, as he is cast down from Heaven, in Paradise Lost.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
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or:<br />
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<a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-log.htm">http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-log.htm</a><br />
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And the article gets it wrong. "his name really isn't Lucifer.." Yes it is, it's his first name that his friends refer to him by. "Lucifer Morningstar" is his full name. <br />
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He was an Angel (first and the fallen right-hand of God) after all.<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
I'm Christian myself, and got here after examining several alternatives including Atheism over many years.
Some point at the Universe and say it was the work of God, others say it is the logical result of "strings" as put forth by the string theory model.
Seeing as both require faith (no one ever will see a "string" after all) is it crazier to believe in one thing we will never see as opposed to another?
I've made my choice, you make yours.
One is true, the other fiction, and we will only find out which is which after we die.
As a Christian, if I'm wrong I cease to exist. No heaven and no hell, just oblivion.
As an Atheist...
That you can figure out yourselves.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush