Lucifer

48Cd, 80Hg and 82Pb "I like smoke and lightnin', heavy metal thunder." Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf (1968) Heavy metal, often dubbed as the Devil's music, is no stranger to controversy and criticism. Baptist minister Jeff R. Steele, famous for his sermons warning about the dangers of rock and roll music, expressed his disdain and attached adjectives such as 'sick', 'repulsive', 'horrible' and 'dangerous' to the genre (Weinstein p. 1). Dr. Deena Weinstein, professor of sociology at DePaul…

One of the many incident that motivated Frederick Douglass to run away, was when he witnessed the murder of his Aunt Hester by his old master Anthony. Who disobeyed Anthony one night and went out to see Ned Roberts who was otherwise known as Lloyd’s Ned. Anthony, who favored and wanted Hester all to himself, took this as a sign of unfaithfulness and unloyalty. Filled with envy and rage, who took it upon himself to set an example and to fill his bitter void heart with what he thought was deemable…

both throughout history and the Bible, as well as other religious texts, that man abuses the power to make their own decisions and falls away from their gods in order to do what is superficially beneficial to themselves. From Eve being influenced by Lucifer and eating the apple of her own free will, to more modern examples of free will being used to feed man’s greed, all religions discuss the duality of free will, both the freedom it brings, but also the ways that having free will causes man to…

There are 9 circles in the Inferno, and Lucifer is contained at its bottom, at the center of the Earth. He illustrates 9 rings on the Mount Purgatory, and the Garden of Eden is at its top. Then, Dante finds the 9 ‘cieli’, the celestial spheres of Paradise crowned with the highest part of heaven…

The Heaven’s Gate American Religious Group 1. Introduction The Heaven’s Gate American religious group is one of great notoriety due to its atypical beliefs and short lived existence that culminated in a mass suicide. They are considered a UFO religious group due to their belief system and experienced a large popularization really only after their dissolution – making their history short but the mark they made on religious history profound. 2. History To begin, Heaven’s Gate was formed in the…

Witch hunts. Driven by the need to purge their society of evil and sin, merciless government leaders hang supposed evil doers by their necks. The targeting, persecution, and execution of witches has existed for a long time, regardless of whether the victims were actual practitioners of witchcraft or not. The question remains, if these people were not truly mixing concoctions of liquid evil in cauldrons or casting spells on their personal enemies, then why were they chosen to be accused, and…

Analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” “The Trial” by Franz Kafka is a novel of total meaningless living, wandering through court labyrinths and meaningless death. It was written in 1912 and published posthumously in 1925 by his friend Max Brod. Its manuscript was left unfinished and the author left his covenant to his friend to destroy it after his death, therefore, the novel was not intended for printing. However, despite the author's last wish, his friend decided not to obey him and not…

Mani was the founder of the religion Manicheanism. The reason why he is even relevant in this book is because at the end of Gnosticism, Mani was the individual to take Gnosticism and make it into a religion. The religion itself taught that life is a dualist system in which all is black or white. Also, because of this dualism, none of the things that seemed opposite shall meet. At the time, Mani was famous for his story strikingly resembling the story of Jesus. It is said that at the age of…

Devil circling in their heads; this town was destroyed by the introduction of the idea of witchcraft. Accusation after accusation, false confession after false confession, the town authorities who delivered the scourge of God in the fight between Lucifer and the Lord as they made their way through the town members. The citizens who were determined to get revenge started accusing town outsiders, and soon moved on to upright and respected members of the town; and the town authorities, unable…

Also, when someone is labeled a prisoner, they lose their rights and respect, which only escalates the guard to try to demand power over the lesser population in this scenario. What Smith (2008) discusses, is that Zimbardo created the term “The Lucifer Effect”, which attempts to explain the point in which a person turns from good to evil, and is based on the situation that they find themselves in (p.287). Zimbardo took his knowledge and became an eye witness…