It never ceases to amaze me that so many people actually believe all that the Xtian Book of Transgressions has to say about Lucifer come Satan, if you will. Actually, it doesn't have much to say at all, yet Xtians yammer and whine all the day long like it did, and that they had some idea of what they were talking about. But, just because some goat herder with a three-hundred word vocabulary wrote his opinion down on a piece velum or parchment or on whatever was handy at the time, does that necessarily make it so?
Consider the source. Or should I say, consider the agenda. It all depends upon who was selling what God at the time in order to gain a little control over the great unwashed of the day. One come the other. They say that Satan is the Destroyer and the enemy of both God and man. Well, maybe I missed something, but just when did Satan ever do anything all that bad against mankind?
Oh? Prove it... Lucifer, as it is said by the wily, historical goatherder, gave Job a bit of a hard time, but even he allowed as how Old Ned didn't actually destroy or even really hurt the fellow. Of course, there is no evidence that Job ever existed either. There they go again. A rat dies and the Xtians blame the Devil. Ho hum. Perhaps a few people died, but back then, people died pretty regularly just like they do now. Why blame Lucifer?
One Xtian who keeps trying to save our dark, little souls, keeps on telling me that we are all going to burn in the lake of fire for all eternity if we don't drop down on all fours and beg forgiveness from one or the other of their gods, whichever one, I forget. However, I'm not sure that my scrawny old soul has enough fuel left to burn overnight, let alone through all eternity. Maybe he is referring to the flames of passion rather than to those of fire? Naw, I doubt that I have still have enough energy left to burn very long at that either. Well maybe...
I mean that we know now that when most of the Xtian Book of Transgressions was written, the Earth was fairly unstable. That and the fact that Venus, was being sucked into the Solar System and becoming trapped by the Sun, put some pretty violent stresses on this old rock, added up to some fairly interesting events. Now, I concede that such displays must have been pretty impressive, but gee whiz, why blame Lucifer? Every time the Earth rumbled to their benefit they hollered thank God; of course, whenever it rumbled against them, it was blame the Devil. Really. Give me a break... Any planet that is gradually cooling off is going to exhibit a few signs of stress, especially when it gets shook up a mite by a passing chunk of rock as big as Venus.
So what. The Universe was formed in chaos. It's still in chaos and more than likely, it's always going to be in chaos. Helter Skelter. What else is new? So those Xtian fellas ought to quit believing in something as obtuse as salvation by some returning entity who couldn't keep his own but off that cross on the hill of Golgotha, and figure out some ways and means of saving their own buts before it's too late.
Likewise, I figure that living here on Earth is pretty much like playing Russian Roulette. The Earth is our head, and all those asteroids whizzing around out there in space are the bullets. More than that, it's pretty much agreed by the scientific crowd that there is a tenth and maybe even an eleventh planet out there, whirling around on some kind of an eccentric orbit that's going to travel back this way before too much longer. Some even, are of the opinion that maybe one or the other of those planets was the culprit that sucked the atmosphere off of Mars and killed the planet when it passed by. Maybe...
If there is any veracity in that assumption, then perhaps, the old planetary acquisition game might be somewhat similar to billiards, and when you think about it, we could very well be living upon the eight ball. Wouldn't that be exciting Even so, what has that to do with Lucifer? The Xtians have capitalized upon the events of chaos and blamed it on an innocent. Of course, there is that old agenda again. They are all just sitting around, rocking back and forth, cheering destruction on like fans at a football game in ardent hopes of pleasing that goatherder of old. I trust, however, that before any such horrific celestial event occurs, that we shall have achieved interplanetary travel and have long since departed to a better place, leaving the Xtians back here to the mercy of their aberrant, returning God of the desert. However, I for one have no intention of waiting abound for any such event.
The other day, I went uptown to the Library to look up some points of interest, and while at it, I chanced upon some information from the last "Turn of the Century" Hell, people were just as crazy and fearful then as they are now. Wild claims were bantered about and doomsayers expostulated from soap-boxes about the coming destruction that never came. Oh, a few years later a little rock slapped into the Russian countryside and flattened trees for about a thousand miles, but nothing major or out of the ordinary happened unless anybody happened to live nearby. I'll bet they blamed that on Lucifer too.
