Don’t bother trying to make any of it make sense. And don’t bother trying to reason with those that believe it. If you’re an actual atheist, just move on with your belief and pay no attention to the beliefs of others. They should be just as irrelevant to you as your belief should be to them.

Now, if you’re a Reddit atheist, I think you’re supposed to throw a hateful insult-ladened temper tantrum about how Christian are insulting and short fused. At least that’s what it seems anyway.

If it is neither…. Cool musing!

The problem is that God is allegedly light (1 John 1:5).

Light is its own opposite (a photon's anti-particle is identical to itself).

So there cannot be a Satan that's the opposite of a God of light.

Also, the addition of Satan as a supernatural adversary in the Abrahamic tradition was probably the result of a later editor needing to change Anat petitioning El to kill the son of the protagonist as adapted from the earlier polytheistic Tale of Aqhat to set up the adapted dialogue of suffering from the Babylonian Theodicy into a monotheistic version and just replaced the goddess' name with the generic term 'adversary.' So there's the whole later fanfiction as just the result of a lazy editor adapting a polytheistic earlier story to a monotheistic version going against the whole 'Satan' thing too.

Manichaeism still alive and well.

Satan/Lucifer is not the opposite of God but a opposing force to the creation and will of God. Lucifer is kind of the oldest teenager with a bad case of "I hate my creator" temper tantrum ever.

In that way Lucifer itself is already the antichrist, he is just missing a corporal manifestation on earth.

Well and Lucifer is, a lot like the named angels, Jesus and all the saints, a great loophole for monotheistic Christian religion around the first commandment.

edit notes: Corrected german written Luzifer to Lucifer

Me: "Interesting thought."

Me after reading the comments: "This shit is more complex then family relationships in Austrian Royalty."

And Jesus is an incarnation/aspect of God (at least in the version I'm most familiar with), right? It's some kinda bizarre circle

I think your logic is messed up somewhere.

Jesus is the Christ, Christ being the word for "the anointed one" or "the chosen one" or "the Messiah".

An antichrist would be one that is the opposite of "the Messiah" or "the chosen one" or "the anointed one", they wouldn't have to be the complete and total opposite of Jesus to count.

Incest everywhere

The question is, why the god would give a freewill to the humans but not the angles? aren't we all his creation? why god punishes the angels for opposition but still give the humans the best shape who do worst? all these are Myths, there is no such a Satan, the human viciousness is the satan we afraid of. there is nothing eviler than the human rampage causing harm.

If you try to make actual sense of these things you're gonna have a bad time. They're not made for people capable of thinking.

Wouldn't the opposite be Jesus's mother? In other words... Mary is the anti-Christ?!

The antichrist could just unbirth Satan

I am neither high enough or primed enough for the weird logic of theology to handle this post.

if someone reads a fairy tale and believes it's real does that make it real?