Isn't Lucifer the "bad guy"? Then why does the Catholic Vatican operate an infra-red telescope in the United States named after him? [video]

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[–]Ferretman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lucifer is a fallen angel, the second of God's host. He's not really " the bad guy", but he does have a nasty job.

[–]yellowsnow2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And from that perspective or train of thought you could also look at the duality side of things. You couldn't know hot without cold as a comparison. Up to down, love hate exc.. including good and evil, so logically you could not have God without a counterpart. I'm sure that played a difficult role in much of early religious thought.

It seemed Christianity attempted to remove that with God, Son, and holy ghost using the Son as just lesser instead of complete opposite. But humans love to have an enemy/adversary.