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(Date Posted:03/27/2003 10:10:15)
If I were Satan, and I given permission to tempt humanity, but had the foreknowledge that God's true followers would try to stop me, then the best way to tempt the most humans is to subvert those who could pose a threat. How? Write a book. Not just any old book, mind you, but a book more blasphemous, seductive, and evil then had ever been seen by mortal eyes. A book full of deceit, preaching a hypocrite God who imposes a more stringent set of rules on flawed humanity then He does on Himself, yet is the source of all morality. Those who don’t buy into this twisted logic will be said to have no morals. A book of lies, with blatant contradictions with reality, from a flat Earth to cities and places that have never existed to cruel actions taken in the name of a God that dares to call Himself "loving". A book that describes the false God in cynical detail, yet leaves me as a shadowy menace, always in the background, always scheming, but no real threat to TRUE followers of the false God, who are completely immune to my powers. Still, I must save my pride, and to do so, I would make it seem as if I were a thousand times more active then God, my forces constantly at work doing evil. They would seem to be constantly winning, yet people would cling to the hope of a false prophesy that involves billions of deaths and the end of the world. A book that is chock full of sex, violence, murder, torment, filthy language, intolerance, and hatred. A book that would be used to justify all forms of atrocities against men, women, and children, not limited to the extinction of entire peoples from the face of the Earth. This book would be so diabolically written, that people would drown themselves in it completely, at the behest of sanity and reality, and then try to pull others in with them. They would do all they could to hold up human progress and enlightenment, out of their own pride and greed and lust for power. They would prey on the weak and wounded, the suffering and the sorrowful, with false promises of happiness and light. They would behave exactly like me, yet will be too far gone to recognize it. Then, when God decides it’s time to judge mankind, all those people, all the ones who believed in my book would come before the true God, expecting to be saved. And He would turn them away. And standing there, before the flames, would be me, beckoning them to follow.
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