"That's free will for you." Not that at the moment he's particularly adamant about the party line. It's clear enough to him that Heaven and Hell are champing at the bit for War, and that if he and Crowley don't do something, they'll get what they want. He's not going to start pretending to understand God's ineffability now.

"A rank is a good way of looking at it, yes. I've been assigned to Earth for, oh, a long time now. Keeping track of years can be rather dull. I have to say, though, that in all that time I've never run across anything like your backseat pilot there." It's not a demon. That much he can tell.