God is a myth, the “Devil” is human nature, and the Bible is a Bronze-Age science-fiction story.  Far be it from the Church (or any of the faithful, for that matter) to take any responsibility for their actions or the actions of their own.  Fits in rather neatly with the lack of responsibility evident by the powerful in every age.  As ever, it’s “do as we say, not as we do”.  The wealthy are exaulted, the weak punished.

To paraphrase, Man will never be free until the last priest is strangled by the entrails of the last politician.

“The orthodox version of religious understanding - as a matter of believing in an authoritarian, cosmic overlord - has long suited the requirements of the powerful institutions in our society, emphasising as it does that we should worship an all-powerful God precisely because He is all-powerful (with clear implications for our attitude towards His earthly representatives).”
(David Edwards, Burning All Illusions)

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric bronze-age text known as the Old Testament, three antihuman religions have evolved—Judaiism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, lliterally, patriarchial—God is the omnipotent father—hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delagates.”
(Gore Vidal)

“Faith means acting without critical deliberation, acting without regard for the natural consequences of one’s actions, acting because it is demanded of one by an authority. Faith requires knowledge only of one’s duty and how to obey; beyond this point, it is a simple matter of conformity.”
(George Smith)

“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind ...”
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

“There is something feeble and contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
(Arundhati Roy)

“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”
(Clarence Darrow)