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The Holy Scriptures says Satan is the real
ruler of the world right now

Really?  Where?

This may be Matthew 4:8-9. The logic is that if Satan offered the world, he must own them. Otherwise he could not offer them. Flimsy I will grant you but the guy is a tad weird.

Flimsy is right.  Here we have an episode in which the devil promises Jesus dominion over the world in exchange for worship.  However, we also have the Word of God that the devil is a liar.  Indeed he is "the father of lies" (John 8:44).  Why would anybody take the word of a notorious liar without a shred of supportive evidence, especially when the claim is as ridiculously grandiose as that one?  I strngly suspect that the devil was making a false promise that he could not deliver and had no intention of delivering, which seems entirely what we would expect of a character like him.