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talk.religion
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Introduction to talk.religionA scholarly introduction to talk.religion, the founding discussion group of Usenet's talk.* religious hierarchy, active from August 1986 and captured here in its first weeks of existence.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.