It's special pleading and circular reasoning all the way down. They don't see god as evil because he's god and therefore incapable of evil.

I once debated a Christian who believes in Universal Reconciliation (UR) -- the notion that there either is no hell or that it's a temporary state of affairs -- that ultimately god reconciles literally ALL to himself.

But there's an interesting side-effect to this belief. Once you accept that everything will come out in the wash, so to speak, it is far easier to rationalize any sort of "end justifies the means" behavior. In fact this gentlemen went so far as to say that since god alone knows "the end from the beginning" -- understands all the ultimate knock-on effects of any given action he might take -- that god alone can practice situational ethics -- doing evil that good may come of it (ultimately).

I gave him points for honestly citing the OT verse where god says in the first person that he created good AND evil ("I the Lord your god have created all these things" ). But it was special pleading again -- it's moral and good for god to do immoral, bad things, because ... god.

I don't know how many other advocates of UR go to these places but it is makes sense that at least some of them would. It changes the mental landscape a bit from the conventional dogma.

Satan is Super Ego, God is Id, Man is ego. It's no wonder than book is full of really mean, pissed off people

Fairy tales - all !

lmao, this i have been saying for years. from what i understand, the devil was cast out for asking things like why does god love some of his children more than others(humans vs angels) for one thing, i don't think asking questions is bad. and also i think it would be sad if all parents went around saying no little joey, you can't do that because i like mary better than you.

It's ALL fiction, so it doesn't really matter.