RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 26, 2012 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2012 at 10:05 pm by Cyberman.)
On the subject of the aforementioned Count Iblis, I just found this on the wikipedia page for the character. I don't remember him at all but apparently he was supposed to be the actual Devil in rather a familar storyline of the original BSG series. Anyway, on the possible origins of the name, the article has this to say:
Interesting tangent I thought. Count Iblis was also supposed to have something to do with the origins of the Cylons' Imperious Leader, which was meant to account for why he and they all sound like Patrick Macnee. Unfortunately the character apparently never appeared in the rebooted version, so we may never really know.
Too true. There's an exchange in the genius comedy series Father Ted in which Ted, fretting about getting old, says that he'd looked in the mirror that morning and seen a sad, white-haired old man looking back at him; to which Father Dougal replies, inevitably, "Who was that then, Ted?"
Anyway, I'm only 43 in a couple of weeks; it's not all that old. I feel that old, but chronologically I don't suppose I'm doing so bad.
Quote:Possible Origins of the evil
Iblis: Iblis (Arabic إبليس ) or Enais is in Arabic and according to the Islamic faith is the actual name for the Satan who is also in the Christian and Judaic faiths. The name 'Shaitan', which directly corresponds with "Satan" in English, appears more often in the Qur'an, 'Iblis' occurring 11 times, whereas 'Shaitan' appears in 87 passages. Iblis is known as the leader of all the devils and was cast out of God's favour when he failed to accept the first human, Adam.
According to Encyclopedia Galactica (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979): In the Book of the Word, Iblis is described as a "fallen Angel (sic), known variously as Diaboles (Diabolos|Devil) or Mephistopholes [who] repeatedly attempts to lead the humans astray, but is bested always by the intervention" of the Beings of Light.
Diabolis: the Greek word diabolis which is the root word for the English words diabolical and the devil, may also be the root of the Arabic word Iblis used in the Koran.
Interesting tangent I thought. Count Iblis was also supposed to have something to do with the origins of the Cylons' Imperious Leader, which was meant to account for why he and they all sound like Patrick Macnee. Unfortunately the character apparently never appeared in the rebooted version, so we may never really know.
(August 26, 2012 at 9:50 pm)padraic Wrote: Tea; whatever you do,don't blink.If you do,you will look in the mirror,get a shock,thinking "Who the hell is THAT old prick and what is he doing in my house?"
Too true. There's an exchange in the genius comedy series Father Ted in which Ted, fretting about getting old, says that he'd looked in the mirror that morning and seen a sad, white-haired old man looking back at him; to which Father Dougal replies, inevitably, "Who was that then, Ted?"
Anyway, I'm only 43 in a couple of weeks; it's not all that old. I feel that old, but chronologically I don't suppose I'm doing so bad.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'