Can Satan Love?

[Markus]

This is an interesting topic indeed and one I fear we will never be able to answer.

Lucifer and indeed all the Angels are not human, they are not even spirit creatures as we all once were, they are something else entirely, androgenous (leaning toward masculine) winged creatures created long before we were for a different purpose entirely.  Angels are essentially a servile breed created to facilitate a multitude of functions.  Many Catholic scholars believe they were created to aid in the construction of the world, the labour force for the grand architect that is our heavenly Father.

I do believe that once, long, long ago the Morningstar did indeed love Heavenly Father, for how else can you explain the fall if not as the result of a petulant child rebelling against the idea of his younger brother replacing him in his fathers affections?

A wiser man than myself once said that you cannot hate something before first loving it, for no one can stir such passion for a thing he has no feelings for and I belive that Lucifer did once truly love God and perhaps still does.  It is only that petulance that keeps him from accepting his Fathers forgiveness.

However, I may be completly wrong here, my old traditional Catholic/Protestant views die hard and I apolgise if my views contradict doctrine, I am still quite new to the Faith.

[tragula]

The Book of Mormon calls Satan and his hosts enemies of all righteousness.   Love is a divine attribute, and since Satan is an enemy of all righteousness, it follows that he does not love except in the euphemistic sense that we say that he loves darkness and not light, but that is nothing more than a euphemistic expression since it is not really possible to love darkness, per se.   In the preexistence I'm sure that he rose to his high position in part at least because of his love of light and truth, but when he committed the unpardonable sin by coming out in open rebellion against God, he lost the capacity to love as we know it.