Atheists--Aren't you atheist just because you feel sympathy for the devil?

Question

The famous 1966 song by The Rolling Stones was entitled "Sympathy for the Devil":

"Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game"

Answer 1

I don't believe in the devil either.

Answer 2

If I felt sympathy for the devil, that would mean I also believed in god. That would make me a theist of some sort not an atheist.

Answer 3

I often wondered why we run from honesty only to punch the devil in the face saying it wasn't me.



However, having read this song I feel prompted to post this passage.



Romans Chapter 10.

6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Answer 4

No. But if your alleged god were real, as a man who has honor and loves freedom, the right place for me would be in the resistance to your divine tyrant.



Also, love the song.

Answer 5

You have no comprehension of what being an atheist means have you?



If I were to believe in Satan, or Devils that would make me a theist!

Answer 6

Do you think that song was true and that Jagger and Richards wrote this as a memoir or something?



You get sillier every day...

Answer 7

i don't feel sympathy for devil,but i am an atheist,if you are believer,you can give me a head

Answer 8

No. Good song though.

Answer 9

i don't like the song. but, no anyway.

Answer 10

They are camping with Satan. But they don't believe in him.

Answer 11

No, it is because I can think.

Answer 12

NO WE ARE ATHEISTS BECAUSE WE ARE SICK OF PEEPS DIVIDED BY RELIGION.