Human beings, God's ignorant pawns; or, Satan, the ultimate scapegoat; or better yet, God the ultimate sadist The basic Christian view of Milton's Paradise Lost is that a purely evil being, the anti-God, if you will, Satan, is the cause of all human ruin. In short the story is this: first God creates everything, but a rogue angel named Lucifer wants more from existence, so he attempts a celestial coup. It fails because it had no chance to begin with, as the Christian god is omnipotent. He gets thrown into hell and is really pissed off. Like a teenager with too much time on his hands, he finds a way to truly anger God by attempting and ultimately corrupting God's precious, new, perfect world by introducing "sin," which is an action of some kind that angers this God. Human beings are banished from perfection, grounded for the rest of eternity and forced to sit in a corner until their almighty God can find a way to get rid of this "evil" being, who, thousands, if not millions of years later, it apparently still hasn't happened. The only problem with this interpretation is that it was created by humans after years and years of religious brainwashing and uses absolutely no logic. They know for sure (blind faith) that God is good, Satan is evil. But is Satan really the most evil thing there is? Is God perfect and loving? Was eating apple really a bad thing? Satan. The definitive definition of evil. But is it truly evil or is it just an extension of God's will? If God were all-powerful, all-knowing, all-knowing, all-knowing, then, in theory, He would know everything that has happened and everything that will happen. This is however logically impossible, since this would imply a predetermined destiny, which, of course, would leave no room for free will. It's very contradictory and makes no sense. But then again, not much of the Bible says this either. This brings me to my next idea. Why would a loving and caring God create such a horrible being? The answer, plain and simple, is entertainment. If you were the god of a perfect, thrill-free world, what would be better than introducing chaos theory into the mix? God, however, in one of his many ego trips, decides that the human being cannot blame him for the future misery that is about to be unleashed on future generations, so God invents the opposite of himself to shift all the blame about him..