(urth) Father Inire theory cont.

[António Pedro Marques]

Andrew Mason wrote (10-12-2010 21:23):
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> Lee, I'm not trying to be unfair. The Devil runs a very different kind
>> of game than does Lucifer. They are not the same. If you say Devil, I
>> read Devil. If you say Lucifer, I read Lucifer. It helps to say what you
>> mean as much as you can---it would save us all a lot of words. :)
>
> It's fairly standard in Christian tradition to see 'Lucifer' and
> 'Devil/Satan' as different names for the same figure. I'd agree that
> in origin they are different (and other diabolic titles, like
> 'Beelzebub', are different in origin again) but I don't think Lee is
> being unreasonable in running them together here.

The problem, as I see it, is that Lee is on to philosophical concepts, and 
within philosophy those two are not the same.