Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32058610-20170520145426/@comment-3581997-20170925045206

I have made this argument before, I was heard out and policy was still decided otherwise, so I will try to keep this brief without harping on too long.

The stories of modern religious figures are stories, believing in God, Satan and Angels should not be the issue, suppose we were to concede they existed, purely for the sake of argument. We are still writing what we know about them from stories, not interviews. Our reference materials all have writers and been re-edited numerous times. Virtually no one will argue for example Moses did not exist, but every story we have on him is hear-say, with the earliest ones still having been written about him 100 years after his death at the earliest. This logic applies to Satan/Iblis/Lucifer as well.

I would argue we should think of Satan and God the same way we think of the Nostalgia Critic or Angry Video Game Nerd. Even if they are based on real beings, they are exaggerated personas projected for the benefit of the narratives they are in.