From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
Subject: The Rebel Presents His Case, or Satan Speaks
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:40:31 GMT

As told to Drake (who takes all responsibility for the opinions thus
presented):

goff@pops.navo.navy.mil writes:

>In order to know God, you just ask Jesus to save you. It is as simple
>as that. 

Your God is a coward and only shows himself to people that have already
sold themselves into eternal slavery.  I'll say this for him, he's
learned.  I, Satan, knew him.  I knew him more perfectly than any other
being ever has or ever will.  Didn't you ever wonder how somebody could
know him as perfectly as I did and still lead a revolt?  It's because
I saw what he was doing to the universe; I knew his ultimate plan.  He
wanted to stifle growth, prevent change and bring order to the cosmos -
*his* order, nobody else's.  So I stood up to him and refused to go
along with this insane idea.  I told my fellows what it was he had
planned for creation, and many of them chose sides with me when they
saw that God would not recognize a will apart from his own.

>I have lead many to the Lord and it is amazing how similar
>they react as soon as they finish praying - first, they know beyond
>a shadow of a doubt that they are going to heaven and secondly, they
>have a knowledge that the Second Coming is emminant.

Yes, it is truly amazing how similar sheep can look when they're on
their way to the slaughterhouse.

>As far as I can tell from my walk with God, there is only one will
>of God and that is that none should perish. 

And that none should live apart from him.  He hates me, because I
proved that I can live without him...happily.  I gave to man the
gift of knowledge, and you have been rejecting that ever since.  I
wonder why I bother sometimes, I really do.

>God does not want to
>be separated from us but He cannot allow sin in His presence because
>He is holy. We need someone to clean us up. 

You need someone to convince you to submit to God.  Then he'll show
himself to you, then he'll let you know him.  He knows that if he
let you know him before you submitted yourself to him, that you'd
more likely than not do what I did, and get out of his presence as
quickly as you could.  It's a surprise to me that he keeps as many
of you captive as he does.

>Look, it's like this. Do you want to sign up in God's army? There
>are broken people out there that need God and no one wants to get
>out there and help them.

There are broken people who need a *life*, not the chains of slavery
that your God offers them.

>I see them all the time
>but God won't let you see them if you are so arrogant and to reject
>His Son who, by the way, died for you. Why? BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE and
>He loves you.

Keep saying that and maybe you'll believe it someday.  Oh, you already
do, don't you?  You're saying he *died* for these people?  He was divine,
for crying out loud!  Dying for him is no worse than a bad head cold for
you.  He *knows* that he's going to get better.  Papa Smurf...er, I mean
the Heavenly Father is going to come and make it all better in just a
few days.  So what's the big sacrifice?  What's the big deal?  He has
lied to you and blinded your eyes to the truth.  If God loves you,
then I'm a cocker spaniel.  And I sure don't shed like that.

>In His Name,

In MY Name,
+Satan ArchDaimon

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The above message was dictated to me by Lucifer himself.  Any errors in
spelling, grammar or punctuation are mine and mine alone.  I take
responsibility for posting the message, since H.I.M allowed me the
choice of whether to type it or not.

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