Okay...
I first came to this board most of a decade ago to participate in christian vs unbeliever debate. I spent a lot of time in the old 'General Apologetics' subforum, participated in many threads and watched many others. Eventually, after watching and taking occasional part in endless, pointless variations of the same twelve or fifteen arguments over and over adfintium, I became bored and left, save for my intermintent involvment in this subforum, I basically do not come here anymore.
Tonights episode brought back recollections of some of those old 'General Apologetics' debates.
First off, we have the priest in the Canary Islands. His theological explanation of why Richard was doomed to hell would have had 'Blasphemy Meters' (tm) exploding left and right in the old General Apologetics subforum...doing penace to escape hell???
Second, we have Jacobs wonderful explanation with the wine in the bottle as to what the island is and what the man in black would do should he escape the island. In connection with that, we have a very old legend, once associated with Judaism and some early deviant strains of Christianity, now denounced as an absurd blasphemy: specifically, that Eve was not the first wife of Adam. That Adam had at least one, and possibly two wives before Eve entered into the picture. The other wife was named 'Lilith', who turned out to be a bit too independant and assertive for Yahwehs taste, so she was told to depart post haste, and eventually became the 'Mother of Demons'.
Now...based on what Jacob has said about him, Smokey certainly comes close to qualifying as a demon. He see's basically only the bad in people, and wishes to see it grow.
Smokey has mentioned that his mother was crazy. Lilith wasn't exactly a paragon of mental stability in the minds of the ancient tell talers.
Then we have the island - a veritable garden where miracles happen. A place where people can live for a very long time. Kindof like another garden way back in the times of myth - begins with an 'E'.
Now...while Adam and Eve were formally evicted from the Garden, I don't know if that eviction also applied to Lilith or her demonic offspring.
So...maybe...hmmm...
