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1. mostly looking based on podcasts I already enjoy.
2. The Magnus Archives. It's an examination of the Architecture of Fear. It is one of the finest examples of worldbuilding I've ever seen, It just makes sense that the world works in the way it does, and every piece you learn makes more sense. Tight storytelling, and everything is connected, even though it's a monster-of-the-week episodic show. The entire 200-episode storyline was planned by the time they finished the first 10 episodes. You'll know whether it's for you by the end of the fourth episode.

Absolutely! And I never claimed it didn't. However, the solidification of what "hell" is, and what "Lucifer" looks like, is in large part thanks to popular sources like Dante and Milton.

The person asked the question, specifically, why Christians conflate the two, and whether it is true that they are always the same person. Notice that the question asks not just for a dogmatic response, but a comparative religious analysis. While it is true that "modern Christians treat them like the same person", saying "they are the same person" doesn't answer the question at all. It asked why do Christians treat them like the same person, and the actual answer is that medieval Christians conflated a lot of things, made up a bunch of demons, and also took secular sources like Milton and Dante as authoritative gospel, rather than religious fiction. If you're going based on the actual bible, Lucifer is a star in the sky, and precisely nothing more. Even the Serpent from the garden is only conflated with Satan.

Literally ignore the other people. They clearly don't know what they're talking about, though anise is at least close. The name Lucifer originally referred to Venus, the morning star. It comes from Roman Latin, long before Christianity was a thing, and literally just means light-bringer. The Hebrew name for Venus is mentioned a single time in the bible, referencing a Babylonian king who was given the title. You can probably thank St. Jerome for replacing the Hebrew name for the planet with "Lucifer", but I'm not certain on that one. I'm not a scholar of mediaeval church Latin. Never, not once in the bible, is Lucifer conflated with the devil. In fact, even the original Satan was called the Adversary not because he was YHWH's adversary, but because he was effectively God's District Attorney, prosecuting the wrongs of mortals. The entire conflation with Satan as evil happened between the recording of the Hebrew bible and the development of Christianity. Hence why Satan is pretty much only mentioned in the New Testament.

Pretty much every single thing modern Christians believe about the devil, or especially hell, was made up in the middle ages, and a hefty amount of that by Dante alone.

I recommend reading the wiki pages for both, since they're interesting reads, but you should definitely check me on this. Don't take my word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

Check their earliest histories.

E: forgot to mention that Milton was another one of the people who made up large portion of the modern idea of "hell", which was originally a term from old Norse, and so he and Dante basically combined the Norse He'll and the Greek Hades to make "Hell" as we know it today, complete with the Lord of Hell. It's all syncretism.

I mean, yeah, one of the more famous police procedurals is literally "Miami vice".

This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

All the way down all 40 minutes of its posting history

And it even made another slop top-level-comment on this post as soon as I downvoted it into the negatives.

But the "Miami police department" does, and these character saren't named as specific individuals. Only the police department. The police department is certainly, itself, a "public figure", which the defendants could easily demonstrate using the public figure's social media posts and press releases. Is there case law saying that a group such as a corporation cannot constitute a "public figure"?

Where are you living where you believe yourself to be living under a democracy?

Nah, I think we're all clearly misinterpreting this: OC thinks furries are so hot they uncontrollably ejaculate fire at the very thought of them.

I, too, find that perspective compelling, but I think it's worth pointing out that societal intelligence, as defined there, isn't unique to humans. Mycelial networks allow communication, learning and reactivity among entirely different species within a forest. Eusocial insects like the hymenopterans have their own unique languages. Whales communicate among their pods and across oceans to pass on information and teachings. I'm not saying that a tree knows what a beetle is, but there's something deeper than mere genetics at play when unrelated species communicate the presence of parasites through a mycelial network, and each tree begins to produce insecticide toxins, even those which have never been infested by a beetle. We too-often discount the many languages which are already spoken on this planet, simply because they are less intelligible to us, or seem more simplistic than Infinite Jest.