Thanks for your reply.
The reason I asked my question was because your original comments alluded to your present reply. It concerns me that we have been drawn into a way of commenting on social media that reduces things to mere ideas. All ideas are no more than philosophy until we act on them. Then they become material substance in our own lives and the lives of others when we act against others. I asked about Satan simply because that character appears in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. So if one were to be rational one would have to assert (from your answer) that Satan (Iblis) does not form part of anyones belief and that he is therefore a mere idea that one can play with as one feels inclined. Islam is no mere religion and much more than a set of ideas. It is undoubted and real.
Perhaps I should say that your own position is essentially philosophical, and in religious parlance it is polytheistic or pagan. Whereas Judaism, Christianity and Islam reject that universal materialistic pantheon of good and evil to be held as a mere choice - and instead assert consequences of choice as indicators of ones own intentions. Philosophy cannot change religious belief.
Is Satan on the same side as those who choose good? Or is he by his name (God's opponent) not evil? Belief and religion are the same thing when viewed from causality and Satan is no mere man.
Well its all a little meaningless no doubt, but I just wanted to make a simple point expressed as a question, and your answer is that belief trumps religion.
If 'no one belongs to any religion, [and] everyone belongs to a belief' [and] So we have to stand strong to defeat the evil' then there is no religion and and no evil in belief. So my dear friend is Satan an actor in anyones beliefs? Shalom.
- Rhomphaeam
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