mark wrote:
Let's put it this way... if there was such a thing as what Jesus called "Satan", would this "Satan" have more success with people who believed in him as such, or with people who thought he was a fictional invention of the church?
Mark,

There is indeed "such a thing as" a "Satan" mentioned on several occasions in the Hebrew Bible - it is just another member of the Heavenly Host, an angel.  What is fictitious is the "spin" that Christianity has placed on this angel's nature and mission that has been used as a whip to keep the flock "in tow".

UriYosef

Our raison d'être:

WHOSOEVER DESTROYS A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE IMPUTES [GUILT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD DESTROYED A COMPLETE WORLD; AND WHOSOEVER PRESERVES A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE ASCRIBES [MERIT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD PRESERVED A COMPLETE WORLD. (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 37a)

The fruits of our effort:

The battle against spiritual terrorism is being won, one soul at a time!!!