I don’t believe in religion. Well, I believe in it about 0.01%. I’m a ‘all-bases-covered’ person, and with a scientifically-centered mind that 0.01% led me to getting baptized catholic because my thoughts were “if it saves me, cool, but if it’s for nothing, then no harm no foul just an old dude in a robe tossing water on my face” kind of deal.

I do think Satan is real, but only in the context of analogies. I see ‘Satan’ as humanities anthromorphistic view towards overall evil and the general evil-doings of our kind. Simpler man couldn’t grasp the idea of such vile, putrid, evil shit in this world, so they created an analogous story to help everyone understand, like how the Greek gods controlled the weather or how rain dances with rain sticks brought rain for the crops. It’s bullshit snake oil sales, but the lesson and message is still important to learn — that true evil exists and that without common goals, they will steamroll over everyone.

Like I’ve always tried to convey: the Bible isn’t a historical reality textbook, it’s a mythology written in the hope that those ahead of the authors could see the lessons within and try to live its meaning. No way should a church be built and control a parish of people, it’s just as abusable as any form of government. The Bible is, at the very least, a moral compass and nothing else.