Indeed. If a murder is committed, we expect to find a few screws loose. I have a rival quote:
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Quote by: Charles Baudelaire Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas! |
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My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!
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It is in Satan's best interests to manipulate from the shadows. He doesn't need to get people to worship him. He just needs to get people to not worship God. The OP incorrectly presumes that the two are merely competitors. It's not true. God is sovereign. The devil knows he can't really win this war. It's a war of attrition. The devil is sick and bitter and proud and vengeful and hateful and spiteful. And all he is really interested in is hurting God as much as possible by deceiving, twisting, perverting, defiling, and ultimately murdering as many of God's beloved children as he can in order to try to extract as much pain as possible from the Father at the sight of His children's suffering.
Think of it this way: some person who hates you very much has kidnapped your toddler son. You go all over the world, to Hell and back trying to find him. In the meantime, this sick person has been raising (and sodomizing) your child. He doesn't want him to know about his father. When you finally do find him, your son says "who the hell are you? I don't have a father". Do you really think it would be in the kidnapper's best interests to reveal to the kid that he kidnapped him just to hurt the kid's father? Absolutely not. Then the kid would want to be with the father, and the revenge just wouldn't be as good. That might kinda give one an idea.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6