God, and Evil?

Interesting point. There are several different "get-out-clause" justifications which people of these religions tend to use. I'm personally of the opinion that monotheistic religions, in creating the idea of a "devil", and giving him traits of evil, perversity, and going to the extreme opposite of good just for the sake of it, have themselves created evil and perverseness (and for any of you who don't understand the difference between perversion and being perverse: look it up in the dictionary, because they are two different things). These ideas aren't inherantly a part of the human psyche - bad traits in humans tend to be a by-product of greed, ego, and fear. So, in that respect, those who created the idea of a single omnipotent god, also created evil, serial killers, and the inhumanity we see in certain cases (both fictitious and real-life) nowadays. Let's face it - without the Catholic Church, there would be no Satanism (Satan being a purely Monotheistic creation to vilify the old gods and spirits).