Short answer : we don't. Satan is considered fictional or symbolic. Just like God is a symbol of the kingly father archetype, Satan as the avatar of evil is a convenient fiction. Why do bad things happen? The universe is a complicated, severe place. An asteroid doesn't acknowledge your feelings and stars don't care about your opinions. Some things happen because you are just in a bad position when a severe event happens (wrong place wrong time sucks to be you). Some things happen because you made a series of bad decisions and the push back lands hard (karma is a bitch). Sometimes bad people make things bad happen to you.
None of those things require a mysterious divinity or a malevolent anthropomorphism of evil to happen. Humans are pretty evil without help. So logically if we don't acknowledge the existing of God, why would we acknowledge the existing of God's mob enforcer?
Let's take this a little further with this piece of evidence : the Church of Satan. Where to find what Satanists believe . Satanists don't worship Satan either. They worship the self. If even declared members of the Church of Satan don't view Satan as a being to grovel before, logically why should an atheist?
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