Given the problem of evil, I can understand that there are many ways one could interpret God as the villain of Christianity. In fact, many Western Christians who adhere to Penal Substitutionary Atonement already do. However, my question is this: in light of the fact that according to the Bible, Satan is the one who introduced death and mortality to humanity through causing us to eat from the tree, how can you say that he is a swell guy? Yes knowledge made it easier to alleviate suffering and death. But suffering and death wouldn't have existed in the first place were it not for Satan's deception. If you ask me, it seems like both God and Satan are equally bad and unpleasant. Neither would quite seem to be friends to the human race. In fact, read the book of Job and that precisely seems to be the case. The only loser in that story is humanity itself which is screwed over by both God and Satan in their cosmic bet. So yes, I could see why one would dislike God and see him as a villain, even if I disagree with it, but I cannot understand how one could portray Satan as being any better. He seems just as tyrannical and bent on screwing over humanity if it means getting back at God. In fact, I would say that the only time in the entire Bible that God becomes worship-able and things start to make sense is at the Incarnation. Were it not for God becoming man and suffering everything that we suffer in this life, I would not render him worship or honor.