I think Satan is an untouchable scapegoat. As long as people believe Satan is responsible for the evil in the world, they won't look toward the mortal
humans that created the evil. "Oh, Satan did it, nothing can be done I guess". You can blame Satan for not having food on the table, or you can blame
the guy who took your livelihood. The former doesn't exist and can't be punished, the latter will get his when everyone stops believing in fairy
tales.
Most people are inherently evil and they don't even realize it, every time I hear someone utter the phrase "good christian folk" or something of like
it disgusts me. The general idea most religions like to put forth is good

evil

, as far as I can tell from history that means something
enlightening happened to people long ago that may also have been catastrophic. There was a time when people were not ignorant, they saw the evil that
was right under their noses, they abolished this evil and created a belief system around it, it's the same all over.
Well now here we are, thousands of years later and everyone is so wrapped up in stupid, nitty gritty details that everyone forgot the general idea of
religion all along. People are so inherently evil, they took an idea designed to tell future generations to act righteously... and killed each over
it. The cultures and practitioners of the various religions in the world have become the exact opposite of what the original idea of their religions
were, they have become the monster the religion was trying to fight in the first place. This is your deceptive Satan... humanity, so deceptive it
convinced itself that it doesn't exist but exists and is not liable for evil in the world. With the very concept of Satan the bible even forewarns
about deception, the very religion you stand on will become corrupt and people will follow it blindly and to the death. The very words people kill and
cheat each other over warns them of those exact acts in those exact situations.
Satan and evil only exists within human nature, not some unreachable world. We can punish evil and we should. The people who created these fads we
call religion realized long ago that deception and all these negative traits that plague humanity existed. Now, bored, stupid people argue about exact
details and forget the whole reason the idea was created in the first place, to produce a righteous world. Every religious person is a hypocrite, you
have not created paradise, you created our reality now. Two thousand years and we are back at step one, rampant in ignorance, greed, distrust, lies
and all forms of evil that exist in every level and every corner of the world.
We are no better now than we were thousands of years ago, only with a few more niceties and incredible destructive capability. Now people believe in
gods and satans without even realizing why, just because that is what everyone else does.
You may think I sound like an atheist, that is not really correct. I have a religion and it is a polytheistic one, god is called "righteousness" and
isn't a supernatural entity, sub-deities include honesty, compassion, kindness and so on. You don't have to believe in epic floods, miracles, ancient
spaceships and thousands of years old scripted conversations with god in order to believe in making the world a better place.
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