This is a much needed question to be answered. I know a bunch of fundies are going to spout all this dogma & "scripture" at it but I do not think it will really gets at the root of what Satan is suppose to represent. I think Satan is not a person so much as more so a post, or even better yet the supreme archetype for evil. To be afraid of Satan is like being afraid of the boogie man. Fear is a really spiritual downer. Didn't Gandhi once say, the only demons that exist are the ones in our own head? In other words we allow ourselves to be evil, or good for that matter. Oh, I'm sure that there might be non-corporeal beings that have + or - influences upon us. But to a greater extent it is our own selves to give in or resist such influences. To think there's a fixed evil being that heads up the department of evil is asinine & flies in the face of freewill. All entities have freewill. So why would "demons" have to stay demons and not become helpful beings?
2006-07-04
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