Is There Really a Devil?

[Elderman]

Is there basis for believing that a wicked "spirit" creature exists? Or is this belief unfounded?

[jomifl]

You really don't want to know the answer do you?

[bigbadmarty]

no of course not

[naomi24]

Of course he doesn't want to know the answer. He wants to preach to us.

[MarkRae]

Don't you know there ain't no devil
There's just God when he's drunk

[jackthehat]

There is!
Sometimes I hear him tapping from the inside of the biscuit-tin.......:o(

[ChuckFickens]

He's just reminding you that you should listen to the voices, jth.

[jno]

he* isn't necessary; people can behave badly without him. But there are lots of unnecessary things in the world, like the appendix, so that doesn't actually disprove his existence.

*or she, in equal-opportunity demonology.

[erin-x]

No no... That was only Dave Grohl in costume. He was acting ;-)

[naomi24]

Ahh, tempting you with sweet nothings, eh Jack? ;o)

[jackthehat]

If they were 'nothings' my hips wouldn't be this shape, naomi........:o)

[mibn2cweus]

If there is no devil then who/what created God . . . in his own image, no less?

[jomifl]

I know where you are coming from JTH. I am having a battle with the devil in the biscuit tin and I may be losing...

[naomi24]

Jack, I almost said 'don't make the mistake of taking the lid off then' - but then I thought 'maybe she means she's beautifully slim and I've misunderstood'. Perhaps rather than put my foot in it, I'll give this one a miss. :o)

[jackthehat]

LoL.........you're very kind, but I think we both know the truth of it! :D

[Elderman]

Well you tell me, people observed, “Peace on earth’—nearly everybody wants it. ‘Good will toward men’—almost all the peoples of the world feel it toward one another. Then what’s wrong? Why we see regularly mangled and maimed. How can civilized people treat one another this way? What forces drive them to such loathsome deeds, or maneuver them into the situation where they feel compelled to commit them? It is certainly not amiss to raise, in all seriousness, the questions: Can some wicked, invisible power be influencing humans to these acts of violence?

[jackthehat]

Biscuit-based violence?

[Old_Geezer]

Of course there is a devil. It's name is Elderman !
Be afraid, be very afraid.

[sunny-dave]

Fig Rolls can have violent consequences?

[naomi24]

Aha! A good use for the biscuit tin! Hit that dastardly demon with a highly charged currant, Jack. That should do for the blighter!

[mibn2cweus]

//Can some wicked, invisible power be influencing humans to these acts of violence?//

The villain exists by virtue of absence of the superhero . . . which is reason.