An Intriguing Conversation About Christianity, Lucifer and Creation

Sometimes you're the teacher, sometimes you're the student.

I had a very interesting conversation last night with my friend Draco. Not that all of our conversations aren't interesting, but you can only take programming talk so far. Kidding, we actually discuss a wide array of topics, with religion and the secrets of life being the most prevalent. Well, besides programming of course!

Draco and I have a very interesting dynamic. He is the Dragon, I am the Tiger, and like all the myths and legends state, we are at a constant stalemate. We both share a love of knowledge...okay, more like an addiction...and we share that knowledge, to some extent. Our dynamic is basically the love of friends with the awareness of mortal enemies. Interesting, no?

As I stated above, religion is a heavy topic for us. He grew up in churches, studying the bible, family is heavily into the clerical side...while I was raised a loose Christian, and broke away from that path many years ago. Though I must say I never truly followed it, my poor Mother. We enjoy the give and take of sharing thoughts and opinions about that sect, and digging deeper into it.

My opinion on the bible is that its one really good story book, and nothing more then a history book. But I will agree with Christianity here for a moment and say it was probably heavily influenced by a deity. That doesn't mean I think the book is divine, merely that I'm sure divinity had some say on it, just like other numerous texts. But its more historical and scientific in nature then divine. I'll put more of my thoughts on that in another blog post, simply because I can wax poetic on it and become extremely verbose.

We got onto Lucifer, Lilith, Adam, Eve, the creation story and I'm not sure what else. We tend to skip around a lot while making our points, since we pull from many different avenues. We both have some pretty strong opinions on these things, and tend to bounce ideas off of each other and develop new ways of looking at things that way. Usually I'm the one who gets sent off into "I think I figured something out land", but this time it was Draco.

We started talking about how Lucifer was seduced by pride and how that brought upon his fall and the fall of his house. We had already touched on creation, evolution, the Greek gods and a bunch of things before that. We started talking about how the angels were created without free will, and Draco mentioned how that meant that something else had to be in play here. I pretty much just laughed and told him it was a lover's spat. I've been a believer in the dual God/Goddess since before I could walk. Even as a christian, it made no sense to only have one.

At first (being a typical Scorpio) he started to argue with me about how it couldn't be that. Then I clarified what I meant. That I wasn't talking about God and Lucifer having a relationship. Then it dawned on him what I meant. The man hates it when I have a point.

This is where many will call me all sorts of vile things, but just listen for a moment. The Bible clearly states that "the Earth is your Mother." It also clearly states "we" in Genesis. There is also strong beliefs in both a God and Goddess in most of the belief systems we have on earth.

Now think, for one moment. What is the most reoccurring theme on earth? Remember that there is nothing new under the sun. Man takes woman for mate, does something stupid, woman retaliates. We've even seen it play out with divinity. Every major pantheon has something similar, for example, Zeus and Hera. So for the sake of argument, the God and Goddess have a little tiff. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned remember. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the little tiff is about Earth, God darling is rather busy playing with his new toy. So Goddess decides to get even, she's had about enough of his neglect. And here is charming Lucifer, second in command, most powerful angel, very attractive...just perfect for the revenge scheme unfolding in her head. So she charms him, fills his head with nonsense about how HE should be God, he's smarter, better looking blah blah blah. And she has the power to allow him to do this, after all, he has no free will, so the bonds that bind him have to be loosened for him to rebel. And the rest is history, I'm sure you know the story.

And I feel blog #10 coming on...