How come people who don't believe in God believe in the Devil?
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Well, to commence, the framework you are using for your question only accounts for those of Abrahamic faiths.  That's to say there are three major religions that share a common plotline going back to Abraham.  They are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Of the hundreds of religions on the planet outside these three, many fail to have such a melodramatic “good verses evil” relationship or have alternately interesting structures of faith.  So, you could see why many of those would not believe in a devil, but could believe in a god.\n\nNow, among those faiths that do purport the existence of an all-evil figure, there are many which do not practice their faith as taught.  They still consider themselves Christians or Jews or Muslims, but have found fundamental fault with humankind’s influence over how a god's teachings are put into action.  In so doing, they've been left without guides beyond the self, spiritualists, people smart enough to know that there is something quite precious larger than themselves, but unable to articulate that feeling out beyond a natural, balanced, state of neutrality.  In many cases these folk might be closer to the truth than a practitioner and in many cases further from it.  Nonetheless, in the infinite constructs it takes to presume greatness without guidance, a sort of an independent research, many constructs take a shape leaning toward righteousness to such a degree of obliterating evil as an outside source.  To these folks, evil is construct of humankind and personifying anything as a greater source of evil than humankind is a shallow attempt to take the blame off of ourselves.  That said, the opposite also occurs with equal frequency.  Some people are able to make that personification of an evil source, without being able to conceptualize a being greater than that, one which could make all that evil go away.  They are, in fact, only human.\n\nIn Belgium, for instance, in the 80s, the opposite of your question was true. There were many people who believed in God, but did not believe in the devil.  You can see where those folks and the folks you are worked up over, kind of fall into the same basket.\n\nIt comes down to source materials.  If a person derives belief in a god from words above all else, then s/he logically has to believe the remainder of those words.  If instead, a person's belief in a god includes words, but more readily comes from nature or quantum physics or emotions or imperial thinking or consistencies between religions or practices or art or study of other words, then it becomes very easy to formulate alternate spiritualities that neither step on the toes of religious dogma nor fall in regimented concordance with it.  In any case, that is HOW some people come to believe in one and not the other.  Best be careful not to lump the conscientious folks who’ve thought their ways into this positions to be lumped in with the “confused” masses who’ve arrived there out of laziness.\n\nFor you, good asker, though known as Satan, as Lucifer and by other names, the word "devil" was actually taken from mythology that existed in non-Abrahamic religions.  Devils, among their other supposed appearances, were little, red, horned miscreants that caused bad things to happen.  They were just as fictional as gremlins, sprites, trolls, and imps, but we, as Judeo-Christians borrowed that image and that word to better explain Satan because it was something that the people already knew about from drawings.  So, in a linguistic sense, if you believe in the devil, you are believing in something that doesn't exist and therefore the person best suited to answer your own question.
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Becuase they have no faith. They cant believe anything that they cant physically see or touch etc. God is supernatural and Christians live in the supernatural.
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just because people son't believe in god, it doesn't mean they don't believe in something.
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People that dont believe in god Arent ASHAMED.
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Humans have disagreed about religion since there was such a thing.Everyone wants to believe they are right.That is just human nature.Hate maybe a strong word for indifference's because when you move from that to hate then you not worshiping a higher power,, you are worshiping the devil and everyone agrees he's bad.
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I would think it's because we HAVE to believe in something, it's the way we were created, God wants us to believe in him, but Satan has power too and people find it easier, they think, not to believe in God.
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if you come to terms with the non-existenance of god, then you realize that there is no sin.  there is no good or bad, there are only consequences that affect people.  \n\nknowledge is not from a devil, but something that liberates man from superstitious religious nonsense.
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Every atheist is different, but it probably stems from the fact that most people simply can't 'believe' that another person can't BELIEVE in something.  After all, they've been trained/ taught/ conditioned since childhood to believe in god or some kind of creator.  To not believe kind of boggles their mind.  So they pre-judge others on their on observations.
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The devil does not exist. Man deceives himself due to lack of a proper education, which is truly scientific and religious.
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We don't BELIEVE in Satan so how can you worship something you don't believe in?  We also don't believe in hell or anything like that.  Satan, as Christians know the being, comes from Set, the Egyptian god of the Dead, nothing to do with us.
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The way i look at it there are people out there that say why believe in something that couldn't be true? i say why shouldn't you? some people will go thier whole life not believing to find out GOD IS REAL and then spend eternal life in hell. or they could simply have the belief in Him and when they die IF He wasn't real what did they lose? nothing. but he is there and there is an eternal wonderful life that is so perfect. so the people who don't beleive come out as a loss
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The devil is trying so hard to make sure that people reject God and his ultimate story / love letter to us.  Atheism, whether folks want to admit it or not, is a religion as well.  I love your binary code there!
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Not all the world believes in the Devil.  You're mistaken.  There's a big, fascinating world out there filled with people who believe many, many different things.  Some have never even heard of the Christian God or Satan.  Some have and think the very idea of spirits, gods, and goddesses is amusing.
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You mean creationists, not christians...there are differences.\n\nThey deny it for one reason...it throws enough doubt onto what they believe, that it could shatter the foundation of their belief.  There are some who rationalize the 2 things together, and while I don't agree with trying to merge fact and fiction here, at least they're trying to be logical.  Anyone who believes something so vehemently, that they blind themselves to the truth, usually does it out of fear; whether its a fear of death (believe in a happy afterlife), addiction (do 12 steps, because you didn't CHOOSE to be an addict), accountability ("the devil is why bad things happen to me"), or something else.\n\nHonestly, I'm just as confused as why they would rather come from dirt, than evolve from a living thing myself.
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Because they arent really unbeleivers. They just hate God and all who love him. their goal is their fathers goal to try and take as many to hell (a hell they may not believe exsist)with him as he can.\n\nIts either that or God is a liar!!! It is he who said a fool say's in his heart (he is an atheist)there is no God.
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I don't think there is an actual "devil". I think the "devil" is a just a way for us to apply a bad face to evil acts. I think humans need God as humans have been worshipping dieties for tens of thousands of years and nearly 90% of the world believes in a diety in some form.
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The Bible says that even devils believe, and tremble. This is interesting since they cannot be saved and they know it yet they still believe (in the existance) of God. Firsthand knowledge I might add.\n\nEphesians 2:12 gives what I consider to be the accurate definition of an Athiest.\n\n"That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.\n\nSimply stated      (A-Thiest) = Without God!