Do you believe in the devil?

I believe that the Devil/Satan, whatever, is like a personified thing.... Cause (to me at least) we all have a bad side to us to kinda weigh out the good side.... And the devil was created to personify this bad part and... Whoever came up with the Devil.... created it to personify our bad side maybe so like to show how evil and horrible the devil was would like... work to make us not let that side i guess 'show' or whatever. I do believe that there is a bad side/devil in each of us, but with 'the Devil' as a personified thing.... i don't believe in that.... I believe it's just a part of being human... not that the devil is an actual 'thing'....


....ok that probably sounds messed up as hell....

 

I think that as long as there are people that believe in the devil and fear or love him then he exists, even if hes not an actual being but only a concept in someones mind. I also think that if there is a living devil then he was created and given life by the collective conciousness of human beings who have given him form and a personality for the last few thousand years.

 

Ihave never seen some red devil running around, but I have seen people hate, kill, fear, and suffer, so maybe thats devil. Umm but every time I exist I see GOD

 

nevermind....

 

I was speaking of monotheism in general, but incorrectly used the word "Christianity". My apologies for this mistake.


My comments about proving my point stemmed from the endless stream of "Let God help you" that have been poured upon me over the years. I help me and I do just fine. The problem with the God of Abraham is best explained by George Carlin: "There is an invisible man up in the sky and he has 10 things he does not want you to do and if you do any of these things you will burn in hell forever... but he loves you!" You insist on pushing "God" on me. That proves my point.

My happiness comes from me, from the choices I make and the things that I do. God has nothing to do with it. You feel differently, fine. Your ideology differs from mine, vive la difference. But keep your God to yourself, I'm not interested. If my life goes badly in a few months, (not to hell, hell is working at WalMart) then I blame myself and I start again. I have no reason to hate God, I have no reason to be angry with God, because I do not believe in God. Or Satan.

EDIT: At this moment I cannot believe that I am having this discourse with someone who used the phrase, "Jesus got punked".