Thread:Magma Dragoon/@comment-5933172-20131223042130/@comment-1705775-20131226002804

one could argue however that Satan was still the embodiment of evil, even as an angel, since God is omnipotent and thus knew Satan was going to become what he was.. of course that opens uncomfortable questions about God (to some) but that's a whole different matter.

The problem is sociopathy wasn't even considered real in the days of Satan, it's a relatively new condition and thus trying to diagnose beings that predate psychiatry itself can be controversial (some claim Caligula was not actually insane etc).

The Devil (funnily enough) causes a whole heap of problems in categorization due to the several thousand plus years of near-constant "revamping" : in the earliest texts he never truly rebeled and works for God as a tempter, in others he became more akin to the "dark god" of Duelism beliefs and then around the time of the witch-hunts etc he gained ever more Paganic elements.