Copperhead

Michael Straight · 23 May 2001, 22:44 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Copperhead
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:44:11
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kevin J. Maroney wrote:

> At 01:39 PM 5/19/01 -0500, Nutria wrote:
> >(It's manichaean basically: Good Adam and Bad Lilith.)=20
>=20
> There is nothing distinctively Manichean about having a Completely Good
> Thing and a corresponding Completely Bad Thing. That idea shows up in all
> sorts of places, including all of the Abrahamist monotheisms.=20

Is this a joke?  That's the very thing that Christians have always used to
say "Manichaeanism is not us."  Satan is the opposite of Michael the
Archangel; there is no counterpart Bad Thing that is the opposite of God. =20
God created everything, and some things are warped, but to the extent
Satan has any good thing (intellegence, existence, charisma) it is simply
a warped version of the good thing God gave him.   Nothing in orthodox
Christianity or Judaism gives you the sense that Evil is a real rival to
God that might have a chance of ultimately winning. =20

-Rostrum

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