Does Satan Get a Bad Rap?

No I'm not a Satanist, but I just came across somebody giving a thesis that ponders the question.


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"Here are a few things to consider:

1. He was the only angel who dared to stand up against God. We needed that. Imagine living in an Orwellian-controlled society in which everything you do or say is on display for all-seeing entity. Wouldn't you celebrate the hero that stood up against such oppression? That's what Satan did.

2. He accepts all into his realm without prejudice. Seriously. He'll take ANYONE! It's a well known fact that all popes of the past have become his.

3. Who knows what goes on in Hell? Could it be all that bad? If you have some sort of perverse vice (otherwise known as sin) then you get to live it out for eternity. That's kind of like Heaven, but with a twisted satisfaction instead. Just because hedonism doesn't bring progress in society doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad thing in a realm where none of your actions impact anything.

4. Do you think that knowledge is bad? Do you like to know? Do you think that life would be pointless without the ability to know anything? Should we be ignorant of the world around us? If you say yes to knowledge then you have Satan to thank for it. The serpent in the garden was the temptation to rise against oppression and to assume responsiblity for one's thoughts.

I don't believe in anything that's included in religious texts. I think that religion was a nice stand-in for explaining what we couldn't explain at the time. Then came Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and many more who decided to live the way of the snake: to know and to learn of the world, and to make use of the greatest commodity that we have--our minds.

I think that God is the greatest metaphor of our existence. Man once thought that God had created him so that he could live a true and virtuous life. I don't really have objection to such a belief, since a "righteous" morality is important. But Man really f*cked up when he theorized that knowledge was bad for himself. Maybe the authors of the bible thought that this would make for a nice way to control people. Regardless of this, we needed God to learn about humanity but now we're ready to move away from the antiquities that would otherwise bind and hinder us. We don't need religion anymore. We've evolved."

I'm surprised this hasn't drawn any fire yet. I don't really have an opinion. I do like this quote which I'll use here instead of the favorite quote thread.

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” - Mark Twain

Fact that all popes were his? That is just crap unfiltered.

I think Satan gets a good rap. Everyone is always doing what he says while God has to constantly explain himself in order for people to do what he asks.

It's questions such as those essay questions that will cause people to willfully chose hell and then wonder how they got there.

But no, Satan gets too good a rap if anything.