The devil gave humans critical thinking, which God wanted to deny us. He did not want us to eat from the tree of knowledge so we would basically be thought-slaves for eternity, but the devil did us a favour and turned the tables with a single conversation. Also, the devil killed a grand total of ten people in the bible, while God killed somewhere around two point three million, and millions have been slaughtered in his name ever since. The devil seems to understand human nature, but doesn't judge you for being human. He accepts God's unwanted children into hell unconditionally. And still, he is "The Devil". Why? Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's our silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.

Windsor Forest

Nor yet, when moist Arcturus clouds the sky,
The woods and fields their pleasing toils deny.
To plains with well-breath'd beagles we repair,
And trace the mazes of the circling hare:
(Beasts, urg'd by us, their fellow-beasts pursue,
And learn of man each other to undo.)
With slaught'ring guns th' unweary'd fowler roves,
When frosts have whiten'd all the naked groves;
Where doves in flocks the leafless trees o'ershade,
And lonely woodcocks haunt the wat'ry glade.
He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye;
Strait a short thunder breaks the frozen sky:
Oft', as in airy rings they skim the heath,
The clam'rous plovers feel the leaden death:
Oft', as the mounting larks their notes prepare,
They fall, and leave their little lives in air.