>>115474816"Satan" in the mysterious stranger is actually a metaphor for God and how absolutely terrifying an actual God would be. It doesn't know right from wrong because it is beyond those terms. Nothing it does can be judged to be right or wrong because anything it can do it can undo and redo. It is beholden to nothing but itself. When it creates man it enjoys them for a time but comes to despise them because it absolutely cannot relate to the clay men's struggles and conflicts, it is simply unpleasant noise to it. The ending monologue is also very telling of how it views things. "Nothing exists save for time and empty space and you are but a thought" specifically you are it's thought, you are a figment of God's dream. It encapsulates the idea of God being everything and nothing.
