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talk.religion
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Introduction to talk.religionA source-critical introduction to talk.religion, the Good Works Library's two-post window into early general religious argument on Usenet after the Great Renaming, and the care required when Lucifer, Prometheus, Shelley, science, and Christian symbolism become public internet debate.Lucifer is the Patron Saint of Science and PhilosophyA structured 1986 talk.religion thought experiment arguing from a received Lucifer/Satan figure toward science, knowledge, and rational inquiry, by Jim Laycock of the University of Alberta.Satan, Prometheus, Shelley and ChristGene Ward Smith of UC Berkeley draws on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound to complicate the Satan-Prometheus comparison and connect it to Christ in a brief 1986 talk.religion reply.