Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150408162053/@comment-25008763-20150408162902

the problem with the Devil is simple, if you believe in pure Monotheism God ALWAYS knows EVERYTHING and NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING can happen that He does not allow.. even free-will itself can be removed by God, if He saw fit..

The Devil, under these rules, must always be doing what God tells him or at the very least allows.. no matter how vile or apparently counter to "God's Will" it appears : God will only ever allow the Devil to be as heinous as God allows.. never worse..

if God knows the Devil is evil, yet allows him to be so, it is God who many will question in terms of responsibility.. even if God doesn't take pride in Satan's actions He allows them even when He can easily stop them.. thus God is seen as worse by those who view His inaction as neglecting Creation and His judgement on the world as cruel, since He would of allowed the people he "loved" to suffer under Satan.

Satan himself would be nothing but either a slave to God or as a tool God uses to test people's faith.. neither can be a CM.

if you believe in a God versus Satan ideology however he can be a CM BUT the Bible (as we usually see it) is very much Monothestic.. so we can not add "mainstream" Satan to CM since he is not part of an ideology that allows an "equal" to God (such as the Anti-God)