# Why does satan care about corrupting humans? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387 "2015-06-12T20:55:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/101 "2015-06-19T18:03:24Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > It won’t work. The closest Sprint gets is Florida. That’s damn close. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/102 "2015-06-24T19:29:50Z")
I’m late to the thread but I remember reading Dialogues with the Devil (Taylor Caldwell?) many years ago. The theory in the book, IIRC, was that Satan believed that humans were beneath god and were unfit to be in heaven with the angels and the big guy. He believed this so much that he pissed off the boss and was kicked out for his never-ending quest to prove his point by inducing humans to do things that excluded them from paradise. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/103 "2015-06-26T15:53:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Atheists unknowingly work for Satan? They could just as easily be doing God’s work as the devil’s. I would suggest that Gandhi was unwittingly working for God even though he didn’t believe in him. Hitler was supposed to be a Christian, I would suggest he was doing the devil’s work. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/104 "2015-06-27T21:10:34Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > They could just as easily be doing God’s work as the devil’s. I would suggest that Gandhi was unwittingly working for God even though he didn’t believe in him. Hitler was supposed to be a Christian, I would suggest he was doing the devil’s work. Hitler’s ideas about Christianity were just plain nutty (_quelle surprise_). He believed that Jesus was an Aryan and hated the Jews. After Christ’s death at the hands of those evil Jews, Paul, a scheming Jew, took over Christianity and perverted the pure Aryan teachings of Jesus to forge a weapon to bring down the noble Roman Empire. See Hitler’s Table Talk for more loony toon stuff from the Fuhrer. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/105 "2015-07-08T06:11:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Almost all stories about “deals with the devil” show him doublecrossing the other guy-Satan has got the have the worst PR firm in the history of the universe. At this point, you’d have to have an I.Q. under 45 to believe he’d keep to his side of any contract. But he threw in this uniform with admiral’s stripes and shiny buttons and everything! OK, seriously though. With the caveat that I’m no theologian, I think the underlying premise is that human beings have free will, so each of us has to decide which way we wish to go–either accept divine grace and forgiveness of sin, or go the way of the devil. So it becomes a gigantic sales competition between God and Satan that may even exceed the intensity of rival soft drink companies. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387/106 "2015-07-08T18:22:37Z")
I was telling one of my co-workers about this earlier this morning: back in the early '80s there was this music video for this song called “Le Diable.” Not surprisingly it was sung in French. Maybe a _little_ surprisingly it was sung by some guy from South America (but _not_ from a country where French is the official language). Anyway, the gist of the song is that “le diable” comes back to earth after his 1000 years of exile (or whatever. I’m not much into all of that religious stuff) to terrorize humanity only to discover that we humans are doing a fine job of mucking everything up with_out_ his help. I’d say the song was pretty much spot on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-satan-care-about-corrupting-humans/722387.md?page=5)