THE CASE FOR SATAN

That which is worshipped in churches:
- Loves your money (greed)
- Encourages outdressing and outshining each other (pride)
- Forbids anyone to speak against or question anything (slavery)
- Commits genocide and encourages others to do so (murder)
- Encourages bigotry and arrogance (more pride)
- Requires parents to both brainwash and sacrifice their children (see Jephathat)
- Punishes innocent children for their parent’s sins – for FOUR generations! (crazy-talk)

How does this differ from Satan’s supposed agenda? And if God is omnipotent and omnipresent, apparently so is Satan – or how did he know how to tempt Eve (humans being an entirely new phenomenon), know when Yeshua had gone alone into the wilderness, how did he know Job? Besides omnipresent means present in everything – even the Prince of Darkness. One theory is that nothing exists outside of God, and everything is made of God. Hence he is also Satan.

If God is omnipotent and omnipresent (and Satan is, too), and God is Satan (a name that means, simply, “adversary”), God struggles with himself (Hos 11:8-9) and even regrets that he created man (Gen 6:6). In fact, this means God is responsible for both good AND evil. And if we’re created in his image, doesn’t that explain a lot?

Perhaps it’s not that God is evil, but more that he is schizophrenic, sometimes blessing us and making lovely promises, sometimes taking sick delight in our suffering and destruction. The Adversary takes on a whole different meaning when we consider that it is God struggling with himself; it explains why God has regrets and indecision. Why Abraham has to remind him to be just, for instance. But if God is schizophrenic, then he isn’t perfect, is he? But there is a kind of beauty in this paradox; what if God created man to have someone to share the struggle, or even as an experiment to see whether one side or the other would ever win? But the Bible never mentions this easily-explained description.

Don't get me wrong; I don’t mean to say that I support Satanism, only that the god of Satanists seems the same as the Christians’. I believe they even use the same Bible, only upside-down. If God is divided against himself, and we’re created in his image, well, there you go! No wonder believers preach humility out of one side of their mouth and arrogance out of the other.

Once again, the Church is hoist by its own system of belief. It does that rather often, doesn't it? Perhaps the Bible was written by schizophrenics?