The greatest trick the devil pulled is not to convince people he didn’t exist, it’s to convince himself he didn’t exist. There’s an excellent UK comedy sketch from Miller and Webb of a Nazi asking his commander if maybe they’re the bad guys. The film Conspiracy too shows it. Its just a business meeting to discuss a solution to the Jewish problem. There’s no question around the table that they might be judged badly in history.

Trump doesn’t think he’s a bad guy, Putin doesn’t think he’s a bad guy. Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mengele, Pinochet, Mugabe slept peacefully at night. They were the good guy’s in their head. They were the patriots, doing it for their country, or whatever other reason they had.

But the devil is very real. And there’s more than one, they’re just waiting for the chance. The devil won’t have a red pointy tail. He probably won’t even have ‘Lucifer’ as his last name. But like Damien, he will be human. The closer we bring our earth to hell, the more power the next Satan will wield.