Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.