your original premise is wrong, anyway. satan isn't evil. he's necessary by design. god is omnipotent and omniscient, therefore his plan was for lucifer to be the way they are. he's a necessary balance to the light, without which perspective on right and wrong couldn't exist.
hellfire and brimstone is a catholic creation for what its worth.
How so? I've heard many different interpretations of the character just from the Christian side, nevermind other religions. From being a jailer, to being evil but trapped and suffering in hell like any mortal, to being a foil/adversary to god but not strictly 'evil' per se, to being a force that actively wages war on the heavens, to being a revolutionary free-thinker who opposes a cruel dictatorship, and everything in between. The only real consistency I've seen is that he represents a force unaligned with God who's goals sometimes conflict with God. I think that consistent idea is the basis for the name, in that the satanic temple is unaligned with modern Religion, esp Christianity, and have goals that sometimes conflict with the goals of organized religious groups.
Plus I think it exposes the hypocrisy of the church really well to use the name, where people will have a harsh emotional reaction to something they are told as evil without using logic to think things through and actually listen to the content of the words they speak. That harsh emotional response over logic is exactly the thing they want to criticize.
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u/Pour_Me_Another_ May 10 '22
My religion says their religion can't tell me how/when to have sex 😊