The Devil you say?

[malada]

It's been said that Satan's greatest victory is getting people to believe he does not exit. I disagree. The greatest victory for Satan is people believing he's God.

If you look at the state of many "Christian" sects: especially those of the "Christian Nationalists" - Satan has won. There are fewer groups of people so vile, so cruel, so mean as Christian Nationalists. No bread for the hungry, no shelter for the poor, no help for the sick: let them all suffer and die at the borders, in the hospitals, and out in the streets. There is no kindness, no compassion - only money grubbing, chest pounding and the desire to rule over all others.

If Satan is all they say he is, it's those Christians who are his best friend.

Comments

[dewline]

Yes, this exactly!

[siliconshaman]

Why does everyone say Satan is evil, when all he did was try to free humankind from tyranny?

[acelightning73]

Leslie Fish knows how to put Old Nick in his place:

https://youtu.be/-kuz_MTPA7A?si=kO3h7IT_5LD3auG_

[malada]

She deserves her own YouTube channel. I got to see her live back in the 2000s - awesome.

Just a quick comment on the song: if Satan needs people who believe in him to exist, he'd feel right at home in the Bible Belt with all those Christians. With their words they defame him but with their actions they glorify him: hatred, anger, cruelty, their pastors are child molesters, their leaders point fingers at gay and trans people while they're hooking up with threesome. Yes, Satan is _real comfortable_ among evangelicals. Hypocrites all.

[acelightning73]

She and I exchanged a lot of emails during the 1990s. I sing in about the same key she does, and a lot of her songs press most of my emotional buttons about space and paganism and science. And it turns out she was born and raised in New Jersey. I once terrified my daughter-in-law by singing "Hymn to the Night Mare" with intent. "She will strike her hoof on the earthquake fault, With her twelve limbs bare to the Heaven's vault, She will dance in flame till the stars cry halt!"

And one classic depiction of Old Nick is as a slick Evangelical preacher in an expensive suit

[warriorsavant]

Harsh but true. Christianity could be a wonderful religion; too bad so many "Christians" don't practice it. Actually, convinced that if the founders of any major religion could come back to earth, they would execute a goodly number of their "followers."