text: do you think people use satan as a way to not feel responsible for their own actions? i know not every christian thinks this way, but do you think that many of the ideas behind satan were created to make it easy for a person to forgive their own sins? i sure do, especially when they make excuses. i read an answer here on that neocon pastor and his male prostitute: "the closer to god you are, the more the devil tries to get you" or something like that. anyone not a christian who does the same is just evil to them, but when it's a christian, they point at the devil.