urge to pray - advice/help

[brotherlylove]

That's because Caesar was a big practitioner of "keep your enemies close". He forgave and took back a lot of people who opposed him with Pompey and he made a lot of Gauls senators. If anything, it makes more sense for him to give someone he considered a threat a position of power. If your enemy has a lot to lose by moving against you, he'd hesitate to do so. On the other hand, if he has nothing to lose, then he's even more dangerous.

You don't put a potential enemy in charge of your entire power base. The quote "Even you, Brutus?" reveals that Caeser was betrayed unknowingly. Again, you show your desperation; the quote itself is the quintessential illustration of betrayal by your closest friend (an unknown enemy).

The fact that you still don't understand the argument shows that you have no intelligence at all.

The problem here is that you don't actually have an argument because it is built on a false pretense:

Satan had a choice - he could remain hidden, but that would mean that he wouldn't be able to act and therefore he wouldn't be able to influence anyone. Or else, he could come out in a manner of his choosing. He chose the latter.

And here is the false pretense; that Satan needed to reveal himself to act, which is patently false. Satan is a spirit, he doesn't need to reveal himself to act. He is freest to act when there is no revelation of his existence.

Do you really think everyone is as stupid as you? That they wouldn't stop to examine their own actions and motivations to figure out if they are acting on their own or being deceived and manipulated by someone else?

The definition of being deceived is not to know you are deceived.

Oh, right, you would think that. After all, it is because you didn't examine your own beliefs, actions and motivations that you are being so deceived by Satan

Without God to open your eyes to it, you will be unaware of any deception.