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Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 months agoLucifer, which means the bearer of light, in Greek mythology represented by Prometheus, who stole divine fire to give it to humans. The clergy naturally did not like this symbology, always doing everything to keep the people ignorant and for this reason, they turned Lucifer into a symbol of evil, just as they turned the snake that incited humans to eat from the tree of knowledge into sin. original. The true root of evil has always been the clergy for its own power and as a tool for the powerful which with a cultured people could not exist.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shush… if theists could read they’d be upset!
Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I would care as much as a news story about a sack of rice being stolen in China.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Nah, kind of hard to considering that Prometheus was written long after Genesis and the book of Isaiah which referred to Lucifer
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When did the story of Prometheus came? I assumed the Greek myths either came before, or more or less at the same time as the Torah.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
All these ara adaptation from (in part even literal) from old Mesopotamian, Babylonic (Gilgamesh) and Egypth (Book of Death) Myth. The Bible (old Testament) isn’t an excepcion, the new testament are fractions of over 80 documents of which 4 were chosen at convenience, very shortened to conform to the dogma and which were published between the years 60 and the year 300 after Christ. None of these were written by the alleged authors, but by monks in those years. All the rest was either destroyed or archived as apocryphos. In other words, the Bible is no more truthful than a Harry Potter novel. Although some events in ancient myths are based on real events (eg the Great Flood), they were related by ignorant and superstitious people who sacrificed goats to have a better harvest, stories that were embellished for centuries, until the raft where a peasant saved his life. family, his chickens and goats, became an aircraft carrier with all the animals on earth.
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
500-600BC.
Book of Isaiah: 740BC
Book of Genesis: 1400BC