It is the devil who entices men to arrogance and dogmatism… it is the devil who encourages us to be judgmental and uncompassionate. All the malice people project onto God is illusory. I believe what Joseph Smith said,

“Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive…. God does not look on sin with [the least degree of] allowance, but… the nearer we get to our heavenly Father, the more we are disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls; we feel that we want to take them upon our shoulders, and cast their sins behind our backs.”

A year or two ago, I have discussed this at length with a modern day ‘Gnostic Luciferian’, because I was not sure how to interpret some of the books. At times, the movement seemed almost ‘parodical’, but at other times they seemed earnest.

My conclusion is perhaps somewhat simplistic: the serious problem with Lucifer is that however you look at it, it is theistic dualism.

And theistic dualism is, by necessity, oppositional and confrontational: ‘us’ versus ‘everyone else’.
That is something which ‘programs’ people to persecute each other from earliest childhood, playing on fears in this life as well as all eternity. Potent stuff. And it also allows aggressors to wrap themselfs in ‘the mantle of righteous indignation’….

Sorry, I do go on…

The Devil is no worse than God…by any measure one would like to use. Yet, by being nested in a theology of dualism, he is just as stuck in an immoral, destructive philosophy as God is.