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Episode 195: Satanism

3 Pagans and a Cat

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The Satan Lucifer Connection

The popular image of satan being formed and red and demonic man didn't come up until quite some time later. The first depiction of like a being of opposing defiance in that kind of a traditional satan form, again, runs back to zoroastriism. And so now lucifer is interpreted as sort of the rebel angel figure. This actually goes back to the seventeenth century,. with john milton, whom i quoted in the beginning, who wrote paradise lost o paradise lo.

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