There Is No Such Thing As Satan

Question from person #1: Does anyone hear Satan talking to them?

Me: There is no such thing as Satan. Ignore that voice and take your medicine on schedule.

Question from person #2: You wrote, "There is no such thing as Satan." How did you reach THAT conclusion?

Me: All that exists now, has always existed from the moment of the creation of the universe, the star-dust just keeps rearranging itself, and will continue to do so long after human kind is gone. Whatever that force is that creates, sustains, and rearranges all, and is the force within every cell of the universe, is what I call God.

Satan is a construct of the human mind. So is a god that would whisper in your ear and punish, blame and shame you, for believing in the wrong rule book or story book. That sounds more like a manipulative human than a God.

People will hate each other based on petty, superficial differences, such as the location of another person's place of birth, or the ancestral physical traits that comprise the various races, or which religious philosophy they were raised to believe. Sometimes that philosophy will be the one that resonates with your way of seeing life and death. Sometimes it won't. See it however you want.
You are only human, you deserve love. This life is hard work, and it is possible to cry and feel horrible emotionally, and at the same time, still be aware of that part of your mind observing that beauty and good still exist, and it will be waiting for you when your unbearable emotions have passed. Hanging in there until they have passed, as you know, can require the help of others.

If a person finds it difficult or impossible to see the soul that wants only to love and be loved, within all of us, this can cause great pain. I experience pain and joy, but I don't blame Satan for the pain and God for the joy. I don't claim to understand the mind of God, and anyone who says they do is a liar. I am just a little creature on a little planet, who knows that it doesn't matter whether I understand or not. Existence is such an awesome phenomenon, and this is a realm of suffering as well as joy.

Any voice that tells you to harm yourself or any other creature, to satisfy the voices' demands, is neither Satan or God, it is a brain malfunction. More evil has been done on this earth in the game of, "My God is better than your God." How stupid and unevolved that way of thinking is. All that exists is God covered with the veil of the Ordinary.

Every person who has ever lived has felt both pain and joy. This life is complex, but we all got here without knowing the way here. If there is a different form of existence after we die from this life, we will get there without having to orchestrate the trip. And if our time here is the only taste of life we get, that is just the way it is supposed to be. Life goes on within you and without you, not because of you.

See it differently if you like.

I'm not the bossy type.

Kanbihachi (Another of my noms-de-plume, it means, sweet: kanbi, bee: hachi, in Japanese)
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Comment from person #3: I just needed to say that I think this post was absolutely wonderful. I have never had someone explain things so well that I felt I actually understood. Thank you sooo very much.