Satanism and Paganism

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As I said in another discussion ("Wicca and Catholic can it mix"), I'm going to start a discussion about Satanism and Paganism. My liking for Satan when I was a boy never became esteem because fundamentally I've always seen him as a person who tried to take over someone else's place in exercising power. This has nothing to do with the great esteem that I've always had for Prometheus who altruistically disobeys Gods to help human beings. Eve, one of the few women in Jewish mythology I admire, also disobeys Yaweh to get one personal advantage. I see no harm in it, but I think that Prometheus' deed is of a higher level. I liked Satan because of his desire to destroy the hierarchy Yaweh set up. The thing that I reject about this Myth is the banalization it creates in followers of Catholicism, i.e. the fact that they divide the world into white or black, right or wrong, good or bad, infernal or heavenly. Existence, life, everything that happens, happened and will happen around us, has so many shades, so many tones of grey, that it's impossible to dualistically reduce all the issues that involve them. Who was Satan in Bosnia, Clinton or Milosevic? And in Rwanda, the Hutus or the Tutsis? And in East Timor, the Christians or the Muslims? The constant game of finding things either bad or good is one I'll leave to the Christians, beacuse they always "know" where right and wrong lie. On the other hand, the day before yesterday, on an evening television show, the Italian singer Adriano Celentano told Piero Pelù, another Italian singer: "Women should never have abortions". Really? Is a woman who has abortion always a torturer and never a victim? I conclude my article by saying that I agree with Fulvio Rendhell in his book "Lilith, Satan's bride", when he states that "magic gives Satan the value of emancipating human beings in the eternal struggle with darkness. This is symbolized by a he-goat with a lighted black candle between his horns that illuminates the surrounding darkness" and that "the Catholic Church, combining sin with magical negativity and giving it an infernal demoniacal look", but the myth of Satan never resonated for me. If somebody asked me: "What does the word "lightbearer" make you think of?" I'd doubtless answer: "PROMETHEUS".