People, especially Christians need to stop blaming Satan for all the worlds' problems. It is a cop out. Let us cast the blame where it belongs. On us. Yes us, the humans. For far too long people have anointed an escape goat for there depravity. I say lets all face the truth for once. Look into the mirror and see the real culprit. Generation after generation has blamed the last for its own struggles with truth and righteous livening. The fact of the matter is that people do not want to live righteously, as a famous reporter has said, "everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to do the things needed to get them there". Well, I say enough is enough, we need to start changing and do those things now! God gave us a free will not for our own enjoyment but for our own growth. We all know how the seat of power is maintained, it works by keeping an enemy or adversary as a threat in order to control people through fear hence maintaining its base. Nevertheless, I say stop this childish escalation. Moreover, for those who would say that this is how God works by using Satan as his adversary I say to those people you do not understand God. God created man out of love not pleasure, we need to stop seeking ourselves but instead look at us as the vision of God. I say there is no Satan just a reflection of what we are away from God. Again, there is no Satan, just God and us, and the "us" has become a corrupted form of the original creation. I do not claim to know what we are or where we came from, maybe we are a genetically created being from the God being? What I do know is that there is a God, who is a wonderful, loving, caring, and patient being. Who looks after the ones who call to him in righteousness and who comforts the ones who struggle in this current state of affliction in the darkness. Do not give up or in to the desires that persist at your mind for it's this process which keeps you in darkness and perpetuates the current state of corrupted conscience.
Here is an anecdote for you. Think of it like going down to the basement to retrieve something you think you may need. Halfway down the stairs the light goes off, so you get a flashlight and continue down, (its this persistence of mind that lures you down not the item itself which has become secondary but the thrill of the unknown for in the human mind its this state that becomes foremost), once down in the bowls of the basement then the flashlight fails, there you are standing in the darkest of dark, cold, frightened and lost. What do you do! Where do you go! Do you run, but to where! You cannot see except the dark, what you do. Call out? I say do not go into the basement and ignore the calling of the dark no matter what you feel you may need down there, there is always something upstairs which will either work better or do just fine. Maintain that sense of feeling and stability fight the need for the desire.


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Mindless idiots all of us!
Father St. John of the Cross
Oops, the devil made me do it. I wouldn't have agreed with you if not for the devil. Hmmm, as I rub my chin in comtemplation at the thought. Wait one minute. I will be bold enough to say I agree with you because thats how "I" feel. I refuse to give power over me to the devil. What's your excuse?
Good stuff.
(Catechism of the Catholic Church: p 395) The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries - of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but "we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him."
Therefore I leave God out of it and blame myself when things don't work out the way they should. I have no excuses.
Although I think that you are generalizing with the title that you have chosen ~ "Christians! Stop Blaming Satan." . . . I can agree with you that . . .
"I say lets all face the truth for once. Look into the mirror and see the real culprit. Generation after generation has blamed the last for its own struggles with truth and righteous living. The fact of the matter is that people do not want to live righteously, as a famous reporter has said, "everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to do the things needed to get them there". Well, I say enough is enough, we need to start changing and do those things now! God gave us a free will not for our own enjoyment but for our own growth." ~ John Sparacio
Not ALL Christians blame satan -- (who has no power by the way) for the world's problems. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is non~Christians who think that they know the makings and thoughts of TRUE CHRISTIANS.
Your other comments . . .
"Could Satan be a creation by some humans to keep other humans down?" ~ John Sparacio
No doubt about that John. You cannot believe in a God that is ALL POWERFUL on the one hand, and then deny God's POWER on the other. That duality does not make any sense.
"The only conflict with my theory is that Jesus acknowledges Satan’s existence. And if you are a Christian then you must believe in what Jesus Christ says. Can someone tackle this question!" ~ John Sparacio
It is plausible that one can acknowledge a serpent's existence and yet at the same time give the serpent NO POWER whatsoever in terms of how that one may live their life. Agreed?
The Word speaks of Satan as a real being, many times. And it says that one day he will appear on earth as a false Christ, and multitudes will believe him, and be led to great folly thereby. That one no doubt is quite pleased by the voices calling him a myth, and of course, that must come to pass, for the Book to be truth.
You are free to claim to know such a being is not real, but you have absolutely no possible way of knowing that, do you?
PS~ This has nothing whatsoever to do with what folks blame him for, or the potential for people to misunderstand or deny what they themselves help bring into being by their own iniquity or fear.
I agree.
Satan is not a 'person' but a negative energy which is more easily understood with the realization that the world is made up of positives and negatives. Religion is man-made therefore each one makes their own rules.