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I read somewhere that a third of the angels joined Satan in his revolt. Now this gave me pause. On one side there is God, the Almighty, omnipotent, omniscient and all that. Completely, utterly inassailable, to revolt would be an insanity, surely. And yet this upstart angel manages to convince one out of every three angels, whose sole purpose is the sing the praises of God and is therefore surely hard-wired for the position, to revolt and turn away. He had to have one hell of a good argument to back him up.

Now, its before the fall. The angels are milling about, singing and praying. Satan suddenly stops singing, and begins to speak. He speaks fluently and passionately, and soon heads are nodding. God reacts violently, and soon a war is on with the inevitable defeat of Satan, which he and all his comrades surely knew was the most likely outcome.

Now, any ideas about what the heck he could possibly have said? It must have been the most effective speech in history. What sort of arguments could he have possibly used?