From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T10:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Religion

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:04:52AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
>>> Michel Belleville wrote:
>>>> Or Largely Used Cyber Implementation For Executing Runnables Silently.
>>>> Doesn't sound very biblical to me.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, it would be a mouthfull too. Perhaps initialed ?...
>>>>
>>> Good idea... Lucifer ("light-bringer") is an old name for Jesus...
>> News to me.  In Christian tradition, so far as I'm aware, Lucifer has
>> always referred to the first among angels (until he "went bad", that is).
>>
> 
> Common usage, yes. But there are old Christian hymns (by "old" I mean
> well over 1000 years) that use the term according to its meaning rather
> than as a name for any evil entity.

I don't know that that's actually true of the Latin word "Lucifer". Some 
of the underlying Hebrew and Greek, very probably, but "Lucifer" seems 
to have been nailed down almost as soon as Jerome used it in the Vulgate..

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why 
it was her."
   -- "Alias"