religious poetry

[Erthona]

Yeah, I use to edit this college poetry mag, and about 25% were the types of poem you'd expect being located in the Bible belt. What was instructive was how easy it was to tell that they got their information/facts from some other source other than the bible. I remember one poem that was talking about something from the old testament and it kept referring to "Lucifer" as being the name of the snake in the garden. I asked the writer if he didn't know that the word Lucifer was only used once in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), and that was Isaiah making reference to a king of Babylon. He responded very forcefully that I was a complete idiot and that everyone knew that the "devil" "Satan" and "Lucifer" were the same person. Oh well, at least he had probably read some Milton, unlike most of the Jesus Hallmark card writers.

Thanks for the comments Chris and Marcella,

Dale