Sometime ago i read 1 sentence from another religious book ,The Qur`An.This sentence made me think about the "Only with love we will be able to resist them"case.It said:
U want to fight them,why?Because they are not like you?They are like you,keep this in mind,if u someday are in a place where they look different,speak different behave different,PRAY different,then go and pray with them ,because they are your people.-Prophet Muhamed.(He spoke to a young boy who wanted to fight against another group of his people because they was not like his group).
When he talked about the devil,he used the synonymous "Snake" to speak about him.