Quote Originally Posted by reaper666
There is an interesting explanation for this in the movie Zeitgeist. They claim that God, Jesus, and other religious figures were metaphors of astronomical observations and that when the sun (God) set then the story went that Satan's evil forces or whatever would take over the earth for the night until God would take control back in the morning. If this were true then the people who first lived with these stories probably related Satan (or equivalent) to the lack of light and warmth, fear, predators and other things that might be considered evil.
Exactly similar to many examples I have gone through in my imagination.. it would make alot of sense to me.