Sunday, March 22, 2026 · 天火 · tianmu.org
talk.religion
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Lucifer is the Patron Saint of Science and PhilosophyA structured philosophical argument that Lucifer's three Biblical acts — rebellion, the gift of knowledge, and questioning faith — make him the proper patron of scientific inquiry, by a philosophy student at the University of Alberta, 1986.Satan, Prometheus, Shelley and ChristGene Ward Smith of UC Berkeley draws on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound to connect the Satan-Prometheus comparison to Christ, showing how Romantic poetry explicitly linked all three figures — the rebel angel, the fire-bringer, and the crucified god — as variants of the same archetype.


