'Satan' does not exist..

OF THE BASES OF CHRISTIANITY...

It is upon this plain narrative of facts, together with another case I am going to mention, that Christian methologysts, calling themselves the Christian Church, have erected their fable, which for absurdity and extravagance is not exceeded by anything that is to be found in the methology of the ancients.

The ancient mythologists tell us that the race of Giants made war against Jupiter, and that one of them threw a hundred rocks against him at one throw; that Jupiter defeated him with thunder, and confined him afterwards under Mount Etna; and that every time the Giant turns himself, Mount Etna belches fire. It is here easy to see that the circumstance of the mountain, that of it's a volcano, suggested the idea of a fable; and the fable is made to fit and wind itself up with that circumstance.

The Christian mythologysts tell that their Satan made war against the Almighty, who defeated him, and confined him afterwards, not under a mountain, but in a pit. It is here easy to see that the first fable suggested the idea of the second; for the fable of Jupiter and the Giants was told many hundred years before that of Satan.

Thus far the ancient and the Christian mythologists differ very little from each other. But the latter have contrived to carry the matter much further. They have contrived to connect the fabulous part of the story of Jesus Christ with the fable originating from Mount Etna; and in order to make the parts of the story tye together, they have taken to their traditions of the Jews; for the Christian mythology is made up partly from the ancient mythology, and partly from the Jewish traditions.

The Christian mythologysts, having confined Satan in a pit, were obliged to let him out again to bring on the sequel of the fable. He is then introduced into the garden of Eden in the shape of a snake, or a serpent, and in that shape, he enters into a familiar conversation with Eve, who is no way surprised to hear a snake talk; and the issue of this tete-a-tete is, that he persuade her to eat an apple, and the eating of that apple damns all mankind.

After giving Satan this triumph over the whole creation, one would have suppossed that the church mythologists would have been kind enough to send him back to the pit, or if they had not done this, that they would have put a mountain upon him, ( for they say that their faith can move a mountain), as the former mythologists had done, to prevent his getting again among the women, and doing more mischief. But, instead of this, they leave him at large, without even obliging him to give his parole. the secret of which is, that they could not do without him; and after being at the trouble of making him, they bribed him to stay. They promised him ALL the Jews, ALL the Turks by anticipation, nine-tenth of the world beside, and Mohamet into the bargain. After this, who can doubt the bountifulness of the Christian Mythology?

Having thus made an insurrection and a battle in heaven, in which none of the combatants could either be killed or wounded--put satan into the pit--let him out again-- given him triumph over all creation--damned all mankind by the eating of the apple, these Christian mythologists bring the two ends of their fable together. they represent this virtuous and amiable man, Jesus Christ, to be at once both God and man, and also the son of God, celestially begotten, on purpose to be sacrificed, because they say that Eve in her longing ( yeilding to an unrestrained appetite) had eaten an apple... by Thomas Paine *The Age Of Reason*
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I grew up wondering how a loving God could sentence someone to die for eating an "apple".. or the fruit of 'the tree of the knowledge of good and bad'....Why did God plant a tree like that to test the woman of her weakness ? Why didn't GOD just planted trees of knowledge of good, if GOD really want all humans to live forever? But then again, what is so wrong about knowing what is good and what is bad?....

In their desperate attempt to explain life and death, humans created myths after myths and passed them on to generations after generations... Why coudn't we just accept life and death as we observe and feel it?.. Be grateful for the experience life on physical plane and feel grateful for all the abundance that Mother Nature provides... share with others equal portions of Natures resources just like what is observed in Nature...

Gaining more knowledge , thanks for knowing the good and the bad, I know now as i have always felt that "Satan", dont exist... unlike God/Creator , a spirit revealed through Nature and through the whole creation...They call Satan the "father of the lie", and that, i believe....A lie don't exist because a lie is made up...and that is the truth....knowing the truth sets us free..*HV*