"I will exalt my throne above the stars of God..."

[denny]

Satan You scored 65% Pride, 52% Envy, 65% Ambition, and 57% Deceitfulness!

You are Satan, the consummate villain, and the ascendant figure in the unholy trinity. Throughout history you have been called The Serpent, The Accuser, The Devil, Lucifer, The Prince of the Power of the Air, and The Dragon, among other things. Your “compatriots” in the unholy trinity, the Antichrist and the False Prophet, are merely pawns in your futile struggle with God. Though, they probably don’t know this. This is because you are a master of deception; indeed the Bible calls you “The Father of All Lies”. You are also very ambitious, and you strive to be in positions of the utmost authority. Unfortunately, it was impossible for you to obtain the highest title in heaven and this is part of the reason why you decided to leave. Of course, you couldn’t just leave by yourself, so you managed to use your deceptive abilities to get one third of the angels in heaven to join with you in revolt. God put down the rebellion and kicked you out of heaven. To most people, it would seem foolish to start a war against God, but pride can sometimes cause people to do foolish things. In heaven, you were the most beautiful and powerful of all angels and you were well aware of this. Unfortunately, you let your pride consume you and your passions led you down the road to perdition. After you were expelled from heaven, you let another one of your attributes consume you—envy. You knew that you could never defeat God, but you could attempt to destroy humanity, his most beloved creation. Your goal is to bring as much of humanity as possible to suffer in Hell with you. Fortunately for you, but unfortunately for the rest of us, you’ve been endowed with all of the attributes necessary (deceptiveness, confidence, ruthlessness, and ambition) to do a terribly good job at this.

Link: The Which Biblical Villain Are You Test written by MetalliScats on Ok Cupid

Comments

[nullstr.livejournal.com]

Satan
You scored 80% Pride, 70% Envy, 57% Ambition, and 72% Deceitfulness!

Err...

[sebastian-lux.livejournal.com]

Interesting point, the Serpent from the Garden of Eden had nothing to do with Satan according to a theologen friend of mine. She says technically it was just a snake, and in fact told Eve the truth where God lied! ("If you eat of this tree you will surely die!")

This is the basis for an arguement for lying being good! :-)

[nullstr.livejournal.com]

Both the serpent and the "poisoned apple" themes reoccur throughout mythology across the world (the Virgin cult is pretty common too).
What I find bizarre (speaking as someone who was a christian till about 17 years old) is that so many people see nothing odd, nothing suspicious in the biblical stories/imagery.
The idea that many of such tales are (gosh) just metaphorical and (gosh) recycled from Greek/Egyptian/other myths doesn't seem to occur to those who subscribe to the religion.