To Hell With Your Devil

I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I’m open to the idea that there is a spiritual, transcendent reality and that our awareness and understanding of it is ineffable and beyond the scope of science and ordinary sensory perception. However, I find the belief in supernatural beings like Satan with malevolent human-like personalities to be primitive and absurd. Satan is the grownup version of our childhood bogeyman. He is the personification of our fear, a convenient excuse for our misdeeds and a means to bully others. I have little patience for those who threaten us with the idea of Satan or hellfire.