Satan or the devil

Whether it's the adversary or the accuser, it's not really important. In Judaism, it's a human inclination toward evil. In Christianity, it's subjugated to God; one's Christian life begins with an exorcism or a renunciation of Satan in baptism, at which point we move beyond it and stop blaming it for our own failings.

Satan/the devil is not Lucifer though. That's a Latin calque of the Greek Eosphoros, from the Septuagint, translating Hebrew Helel. It's just the morning star, i. e. Venus. It might have been a Semitic deity at one point, the b'nai Elohim were the stars, but in the Bible it's applied to a Babylonian king. The writer is mocking him; Babylonian kings would "ascend to heaven" and take on the role of a divinity in their religious rites, but like all humans, they would eventually descend to the grave. It's not a reference to the satan.
 
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I blame God for all of the Devils actions since it seems content to to just let evil run rampant on Earth.
 
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Some men you just can't reach and I don't like it anymore than you, but what we have sometimes is a failure to communicate. Which is the way some men want it, so they get it.

Evil is a hard thing to acknowledge and comprehend. It festers in children sometimes, they rebel and act out. You manage them, only to watch them turn into absolute monsters in adulthood. I don't believe it is the devil entirely, because I see it in all earthly misery and the people scarred by it. I know what it is, evolutionary instincts run amok into odd corners. You can see how humanity cannot bring themselves to witness it, to understand it, to catalog it, and to see what the patterns and causes truly are. It is a earthly misery itself, and it scars all on its own. The abyss stares back, etc.

If Satan did not exist, it would be necessary to create him in order to blame him.
 
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