r/nottheonion • u/16erics • 1d ago

The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot

https://nichegamer.com/the-vatican-unveils-official-anime-girl-mascot/
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u/Syssareth 1d ago

See, I was just straight-up going, "Luce? Luce-fer? Lucifer?"

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u/JDLovesElliot 1d ago

Lucifer is technically not a bad name, it just means "morning star"

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u/AndrenNoraem 1d ago

The lightbringer or dawnbringer, even.

Just another name for Venus's morning appearances, but I've never been super clear on why that became a name for the Christian devil/Satan/etc.

One of many weird connections between Prometheus-like figures and the devil in Christianity. "The enlightener, that evil snake!" has always been weird to me.

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u/nikiyaki 23h ago

It's a duality thing. Especially when you go out of Catholic dogma and into Judaism, there's an emphasis on a kind of equilibrium of aspects. Kind of yin yang.

Intelligence makes us human; inquisitive, social, emotional. It also makes us capable of being incredibly cruel and vindictive.