#good guy satan

[deviantplum]

Satan is so considerate. He's keeping all these special places in hell. But you never hear about God having a special place in heaven for anyone.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Thanks, Satan!

"Satan doesn’t whisper, 'Believe in me.' He whispers, 'Believe in yourself.'"

-- Matt Smethurs (The Gospel Coalition)

Xians genuinely see this as a bad thing, because if you have healthy self esteem and confidence, you’re less likely to become cripplingly dependent upon Xianity.

“I am nothing without god” is the objective. Cause then they can tell you what “god” wants.

[cumulohimbus]

John Milton's portrayal of the character Satan in "Paradise Lost" is far easier to empathize with, shows immense self-awareness, and is in general a much better/more likeable character than God, you can't change my mind.

[capitaobarba79]

Me, in a crossroad: "I will sell you my soul in exchange of being good in a thing and be successful"

Satan: "But, bro... you got so many talents"

Me: "Wait, what?"

Satan: "Yeah, this is just your impostor syndrome speaking, you don't need a pact with the Devil"

Me: "Wait, you supposed to try to get my soul and stuff..."

Satan: "Bro, you need to treat these deep rooted traumas, how about to see a therapist?"

Me: "But... but..."

[stevekilings-blog]

Concept Diary #4

The daughter of a single parent is told to ask Santa for her Christmas presents. On Christmas Eve an abomination shaped like a horse with a single tangled horn comes galloping down the road melting the snow beneath it, on top sits a tall muscular man with an evil laugh, turns out she wrote a letter to Satan. This is the start of the story of how her parent and Satan fell in love.

[absolutely-fatal]

bedwyrssong replied to your post:honestly how old is vanessa ives supposed to be,...

being haunted by Satan ages you

i mean tbh, like.... don't fight it?

[myrliememes]

[youknow-i-loveit]

fic where Lucifer is the good guy; he stood up to Yahweh and started questioning his motives in creating the human race; Yahweh had originally created Lucifer as a companion, but soon got fed up with Lucifer's keen eye and quick wit, and regretted granting him so much intelligence; he also envied Lucifer's beauty and charisma, for he had many supporters. So after a particularly heated argument about the human race, Yahweh banished Lucifer to another dimension. But Yahweh is ever full of himself, so he made a bet with Lucifer. Whoever converted the most humans to their side, wins. (Being a god of war, Yahweh intends to fight Lucifer with their gathered converts, whether Yahweh wins their bet or not. Lucifer knows this and is only mildly concerned.)

Yahweh plans to convert as many humans as he can by exploiting some of the weaknesses he gave his own creation. He creates religions which worship him, gives them weapons and things to fear. 

Lucifer plays to human nature. He understands them better than Yahweh ever did, and gives those who need it gentle persuasion. He encourages people to chase their dreams and break through boundaries, to love themselves no matter what. While Yahweh controls through fear, Lucifer grants them freedom and trusts that the humans will come to him. 

Yahweh gets pissed off. The humans in general have grown to love Lucifer more. So he concocts a plan to start over. In an unpopulated desert area, he creates Adam and Eve. He reveals himself to them and makes his intentions clear. 

Angry with Yahweh's blatant plan to control these free-spirited creatures, Lucifer offers them a tree of knowledge. He knows that the humans' curiosity will not be sated until they eat from the tree. 

Yahweh is furious about this, and after Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree, he banishes them from the garden and destroys it. But after he calms down, he realizes his plan is still salvagable. The events of the Bible happen, more or less as they are depicted, but although Yahweh strives for the book to glorify himself and demonize Lucifer, he finds with much frustration that there is not much to demonize. Lucifer becomes a minor character in the book, and due to the fantastical and contradictory way Yahweh has of writing about himself, many doubt if he even exists. 

Adam and Eve, and their family, merge with the rest of the world's population, and some are persuaded to live in the chosen desert area. Yahweh considers these his "chosen people." Gullible, isolated, easy to impress. Yet even so, Lucifer strives to set them free. 

After Yahweh concocts the convoluted story of sacrificing his own son, in a grand show of supposed selflessness, he begrudgingly tries Lucifer's tactic of letting his deeds speak for themselves. He gains many followers this way, but despite all the followers of his religions, they are breaking more-or-less even. 

By the end of it all, Lucifer has gathered an army of creative, free-spirited people who are curious and intelligent and generally happy, while Yahweh has collected an army of angry, stubborn, fiercely loyal people who are more than willing to make sacrifices for their cause. Lucifer loves his followers, and his followers love him, but he is afraid of Yahweh's hate-filled army. Yahweh gives an inflammatory speech, full of barbs and propaganda, and tells Lucifer that he's played this game wrong and his followers are weak! Lucifer turns to his followers with a worried look and is met with a reassuring hand on his shoulder. He looks around at the grateful, love-filled eyes of his people, each one ready to defend themselves, and warmth flows through him. He tells Yahweh to bring it on! 

Yahweh's army fights as one. Lucifer's followers organize themselves into units. Yahweh's army blindly obeys. Lucifer's followers devise their own plans, and clever ones at that. The death toll is high, but in the end, Lucifer stands victorious. He and his remaining followers mourn the ones they've lost. Yahweh is furious. He doesn't understand how he was beaten. Lucifer bitterly informs him that he did not bother trying to understand his own creation. One of Lucifer's followers lays a bloody hand on his shoulder, gives him a gap-toothed smile, and says "But you did."