| | The point, my dears, is not good nor evil -- but freedom. For an angel there is only one true freedom, and that, I'm honestly sad to say, is freedom from God. Freedom is the cause and effect. In this particular Creation, if freedom from God (worship of God, dependency on God, obedience to God) is what you're after, then I'm afraid evil's really the only game in town. What I'd like, what I'd love, is to have been given a nature that didn't even know God -- the fish in the pond who doesn't know life beyond it: the lawn, the house, the city, the country, the world . . .
Your thinkers wrestle with this notion of pure evil or, as they're so fond of calling it, evil for its own sake. I've no idea why. There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated -- even mine. The torturer, the tyrant, the murderer, the consummate fabricator of fibs -- they're all doing it for something, even if they're doing it for pleasure. (The problem your thinkers have is understanding quite how the evildoer gets pleasure from his evil, but that's a different question.) Evil for its own sake is -- or would be if it existed -- madness; and even the barmy do what they do for some barmy reason. What pains the Old Boy most is not that I do evil, but that I do what causes me excruciating pain. What pains Him is that even perpetual and excruciating pain is a price worth paying for disentangling myself from Him. That's the crux of it. That's what He can't stand.
- Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer
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