The devil is a convenient scapegoat. He saves the religious people from taking responsibility for their own actions and from seeing themselves as they truly are.
The entire point of Lucifer Morningstar is that he didn't believe we were worthy of love and refused to do so. He then decided he'd spend eternity proving to God how bad we are by providing temptation. Well... Biblically of course. There's a lot of books out there with different takes.
But is he *really* evil though? What if he's just playing a critical role in God's design, as detestable as he may seem? I mean, who else would be running hell if Satan hadn't taken the job?
"No way! God is all knowing and all powerful! He's the good guy! I mean, yeah, the omnipotent being created the Devil and allowed him to go evil, and for some reason he was a viable challenge to the all-powerful God. But... yanno......... SHUT UP! LA LA LA LA LA!"
Every single depiction of Satan (whether by name in the bible, or attributed to him after the fact) has him basically being an innocent bystander and God as the real villain. The first thing he does? He helps humans stop being ignorant fucks by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge... the tree God put there just to be a dick.
And just look at Job for fuck's sake. Oh, and he offered Jesus some food and water when his 'dad' was being a cruel fuck and forcing him to wander a desert. etc.
We must be reading very different books/media... Dudes literal purpose is to prove to God we are not worthy of his (God's) love. Yeah in some stories all he does is provide the temptation but that doesn't make him innocent. Just like Trump isn't innocent of January 6th.
By all means, explain why all the actual evil in the Bible comes from God? Murdering innocent children, for example. (Nevermind that this all-knowing all-powerful God needed help figuring out which houses to skip... AND he demanded they mark them with blood no less).
So yeah, we must be reading different shit. You're the one who's living in Delusional Land.
I always found that weird. Prometheus and Lucifer do basically the same thing, but Prometheus is seen as a good guy helping out mankind, and Lucifer is seen as irredeemably evil.
FeloniousMonk13
psmith00
cannot believe this has so few upvotes.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
Trelis
Can't compare a fictional being to someone actually evil.
Kittensandyarns
The devil is a convenient scapegoat. He saves the religious people from taking responsibility for their own actions and from seeing themselves as they truly are.
SaintSleepyWeasel
The entire point of Lucifer Morningstar is that he didn't believe we were worthy of love and refused to do so. He then decided he'd spend eternity proving to God how bad we are by providing temptation. Well... Biblically of course. There's a lot of books out there with different takes.
meowingintensifies
https://imgur.com/AtTCQnX
GravyEducation
blaghart
also Satan is the good guy according to the bible.
whitefoxkei
Kazpur81S
Didn’t Satan used to be an angel?
Bludabeagle
DAYUM!!
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
hintoriousbig
Second of all, stolen.
Lassannn
Honestly, i read it as "Stalin," first, but...I dunno, it still works...
TheHumbugPrincess
Did Ice T say this? Am I missing the joke? Why is Ice T involved
CaldariBob
He's just got that kind of face, you know?
BogusPancake
I literally pointed out the Trump / Antichrist thing on Twitter (before it was X) and ya'll just gaped at me like I was new here. Puhleeze.
baconisthefoodofthegods
BORGALOOGIE
Folks might also find Lucifer a little more attractive, no?
moonweasel
Is that the hot statue, or the hotter one?
trippingthelightfantastic
You can judge for yourself
BORGALOOGIE
Fantastic response +1
SolHSA
the older I get, the more I wonder how, exactly, is devil evil
fallswinkingtothefloor
Most MCs today ain't got nothin to say - A to the muthafuckin K.... Got him!
WontonAddict
https://x.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1324833534461333507
Here's the tweet straight from the source
MarioBoon
Satan never killed anyone. God on the other hand...
eZeno
Good one
lostinthoughtinathoughlessworld
Satan is in charge of punishing evil people. He's an ok dude in my book.
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
Man, he changed his tone from 2016. At least now he calls Trump a piece of shit, which is good.
EdelwoodHikes
But is he *really* evil though? What if he's just playing a critical role in God's design, as detestable as he may seem? I mean, who else would be running hell if Satan hadn't taken the job?
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Cliff Richard
DocFunkenstein
"No way! God is all knowing and all powerful! He's the good guy! I mean, yeah, the omnipotent being created the Devil and allowed him to go evil, and for some reason he was a viable challenge to the all-powerful God. But... yanno......... SHUT UP! LA LA LA LA LA!"
DocFunkenstein
Every single depiction of Satan (whether by name in the bible, or attributed to him after the fact) has him basically being an innocent bystander and God as the real villain. The first thing he does? He helps humans stop being ignorant fucks by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge... the tree God put there just to be a dick.
And just look at Job for fuck's sake. Oh, and he offered Jesus some food and water when his 'dad' was being a cruel fuck and forcing him to wander a desert. etc.
meowingintensifies
Good Guy Lucifer is one of the best depictions of Satan in the modern day.
DumpingSh1tandBeingKind2
Yep, from the little I know Satan shows more mercy and love than God ever did/does ...
MarioBoon
Only thing Satan (Lucifer) did was being too prideful. and god couldn't handle that. Also Satan never killed anyone...
SaintSleepyWeasel
We must be reading very different books/media... Dudes literal purpose is to prove to God we are not worthy of his (God's) love. Yeah in some stories all he does is provide the temptation but that doesn't make him innocent. Just like Trump isn't innocent of January 6th.
Kittensandyarns
He did do a good job proving to humans that god isn't worthy of our love.
DocFunkenstein
By all means, explain why all the actual evil in the Bible comes from God? Murdering innocent children, for example. (Nevermind that this all-knowing all-powerful God needed help figuring out which houses to skip... AND he demanded they mark them with blood no less).
So yeah, we must be reading different shit. You're the one who's living in Delusional Land.
CakeIsALie227
bamcobra
God: “I already used up all the locusts.”
ChelVanin
What has satan really done thats so evil?
SaintSleepyWeasel
Depends on the book but in most of them he's the dick.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
Psionickitten
Defy the "infallible father figure" with the free will he was supposedly given. That's about it. According to their fairy tales book.
TheMightyMollusk
Satan was the first ANTIFA.
notyoubizness
Nothing. He gave knowledge where there was blind faith. Now, who would hate that, I wonder?
Keairan
He killed Job's family, with Yahweh's blessing/orders.
BurlRavenscroft
I honestly don’t know and I kinda don’t even know who the devil is anymore. Lucifer, satan, beelzibub are all different dudes!
BeaverOnFire
Depends on who you ask. /S
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Satan and Death get a bum rap.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
He rebeled against God because he.... didn't have free will?
selej
A Hell (ooo a wild pun) of a lot less then God evil wise.
weidermeijer
Made a chick eat an apple.
iananimated
That was a serpent, not Satan, and the fruit is depicted as an apple but it's only known as a fruit in the bible. It could have been a banana.
alexcoldt
He punishes evil people! wait...
Agreement2agree
Exercised free will when he wasn't supposed to. That's pretty much it.
ClownishAntics
Did Prometheus deserve his punishment?
magicrhombus
I always found that weird. Prometheus and Lucifer do basically the same thing, but Prometheus is seen as a good guy helping out mankind, and Lucifer is seen as irredeemably evil.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Different mythology
ClownishAntics
Yup, but both still introduced mankind to knowledge. Plus Lucifer in latin is "light bringer", which is a bit on the nose.
DocFunkenstein
Same concept. Giving knowledge of fire vs. giving knowledge from the tree of the same name.