It’s because Satan still likes all the stuff God likes, he just got kicked out.
So he’s got like, a super fucked up punisher/batman thing going on where he fails to acknowledge his own faults but sees all the sinners arriving in hell as deplorable, and deserving punishment.
I always figured in the story that really, since the adversary was the first one banished, he would probably not be so much occupied with the torture of others. Probably be like, “Welcome to the Shit Show.” Assuming you even ran into him. Place is probably pretty full by now.
The Christian Hell mythology is contradictory because it’s almost entirely fanfiction, and a much more modern fanfiction than you’d think, particularly in regards to Satan’s role.
The long and short of it is that, if you assume the Bible is an authority on such things, Hell isn’t this major thing where most people end up because they didn’t believe correctly, it’s not a physical thing at all, much less a thing populated by torturing demons, and Satan wouldn’t be in charge, or the Warden, or anything like that. He’d be a prisoner too.
Even in Inferno, Dante depicts him as imprisoned in ice.
If I remember correctly, the book itself refers to a lake of fire, talks of people going somewhere devoid of God’s love, and that’s just it. It’s absolutely bonkers what Dante’s Inferno did to Christian lore.
I’m not a Christian, personally, so it’s just an oddity to me.
This is a marketing trick, part of the shrinkflation treadmill.
(1) Step one, make a box with three rows of cookies.
(2) Step two, make two products, one with two rows (at a slightly lower price than the three rows), and introduce a Family Size/Share Size/etc. with four rows that costs just under double.
(3) Step three, return two step one, but now with a higher price.
Repeat ad nauseum.
The thing is, as a single consumer who is trying to buy at the best price point at any given time, I’ll fall for it repeatedly.
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