"What's the moral of the story?"
The moral of the story is that if some kids are bothering you, just tell God and He'll send some bears down to devour them.
Yeah, let's look at the Bible a little more closely. What crimes does Satan commit? From what I'm able to see, his worst crime in the Bible is letting God do bad things to a man named Job. Everything else - war, genocide, human sacrifice (he nearly wiped out the whole human species once, not to mention all land life on Earth), bears killing children at the behest of some dude, etc - all Jehovah. Of the two, it sounds like Satan is the better person. After all, all Satan/Lucifer does in the Bible is call God on his bullshit and stand up for the humans. And if we assume The Serpent was Satan, we can add "getting people to eat healthy" to the list; after all, God lied. They ate the apple, and did not die. We need a bumper sticker that has on one side the text "God lied," followed by a red apple; on the other side of the apple, the text, "They didn't die."
It confuses and disgusts me that the true villain of the Bible is the one so many worship. This Jehovah/YHWH/God fellow supposedly created the universe. Setting that aside for now, he creates humans, tells them a lie about a tree, and throws them out when they break that rule. Okay, so far not too bad. But he obviously didn't want them to eat of the tree of Life, too, and thus become Gods. What kind of parent doesn't want his kids to grow up to be just like him, or better? A bad one, that's what.
Then when he gets angry at them later, he floods the whole damn planet supposedly, saving just one family and some animals. (Of course, you read the Bible more closely, and it only mentions certain animals, all domestic animals. How did the rest of them survive? Or did God re-create them?) He gets mad at one species and punishes them all, not even bothering to let the species he was mad at go extinct. But whatever, it's still mass genocide.
Later on, we have the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, both destroyed because they weren't very nice to their guests. La dee frickin da. Then there's the city of Jericho, the events of passover (killing all those Egyptians, again singling out for sparing one group of people). I could go on. Satan's only crime was not succeeding in taking that nutbag down. But then... what if He did? What if Satan won, locked Jehovah in Hell? We haven't had any major miracles or Biblical disasters for milennia. Maybe Satan can't do anything about the weirdos who still like Jehovah, but maybe he's dealt with.
Bleh, I doubt Jehovah is real. And if he is, the story is so much hype. Why a supposedly good deity would want such a sordid rep is beyond me, but whatever.
Some paths have it that the ultimate God is beyond this world, and this sinful world is ruled by an evil demiurge. I think the reason the Church hated those paths so much was because it's kind of hard to deny - when you look at the facts - that Jehovah/YHWH/God qualifies as said evil demiurge.
What I want to see is a popular work of fiction, a book or a movie or a miniseries or somesuch, that depicts a world where those who worship Jehovah/YHWH are the evil ones. A society of peaceful Satanists being terrorized by evil Jehovah-worshipers. That would be awesome. Doubt it would ever happen as anything but a book, though.