Pope Francis defends atheists

[Ryantology]

Realistically at some point they knew their rebellion was hopeless, and yet chose literal hell over serving God for an eternity.

When you consider this in the context that God has a chaotic evil mindset, this is actually a heroic struggle. At some point, you have to ask yourself why a thinking being would make a choice like that. Chalking it up to pure spite just makes Lucifer look like a Captain Planet villain, who pollutes just to say 'fuck you' to everything green, and that's just not a realistic motive, but you accept without question. Your faith makes it a crime to examine Lucifer's story from a sympathetic angle. Satan is a villain in name only, while God is the one drowning and burning and smiting indiscriminately.

I'm no Satan worshiper because he's just as make-believe as the Bible's alleged protagonist, but an objective read of the Bible makes him look like the good guy locked in combat with a vast, gleefully malevolent evil which has convinced a great many people that the ultimate crime imaginable is to question his goodness.