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Satan the Scapegoat

On March 7, 2010, In Arguments Against Religion, Devil/Satan, Religion, By The Armchair Antichrist

Satan gets a lot of blame in the religious community. He almost seems to be as omnipresent as God seeing as he is blamed for many things by many people around the world. But, he is really only an invented character used as a scapegoat to make another invented character look better in comparison to. And many things that Satan is said to tempt people with such as gluttony, lust, envy, and so on are just a part of human nature.

Satan is oh so bad. But, tell me, how good is God if he created Satan knowing all well that he would be responsible for so much evil. Besides that, God has had all this time to destroy Satan. Why doesn’t he do that? It would get rid of a whole lot of evil in the world that religious people say he is responsible for. Even if it interfered with his free will it would be well worth it. God does care about humanity doesn’t he? And that would necessarily mean he would try to lessen the pain and suffering caused by evil, wouldn’t it?

It would seem to me in the context of this mythology that Satan is just a minion of God because nobody in their right mind would willingly go against such a petty, cruel, violent, vindictive and malevolent being knowing that he is also all-powerful. But, then again if you take mythology to be truth you can believe in anything.

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