i don't doubt for a second that early religious leaders, if not made up, severely over-elaborated evil forces to gain followers...i mean one of the most basic animal instincts is survival...and if you have some well known powerful (and believed at the time) leader tell you that you'll die and suffer forever if you don't follow them, of course the majority will follow so that they can survive. but with all that aside, even if god and the devil is real....the bottom line people still make their own choices..and i'm making a statement of how much i really despise people who use excuses, instead of owning up to what they've done. the way i've always seen it..if you're ball-sy enough to do the crime then you better be ball-sy enough to do the time. i do believe there are a select few exempt from my way of thinking....there is such a thing as psychosis when you really don't knwo what your doing, the world to you is diffrent than everyone else....but that don't mean they should be able to blame, say killing someone on that and walk away....while the family members of the murdered suffer...