# Demonology- Are there demons who do whatever they want? Bad and good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 25, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonology-are-there-demons-who-do-whatever-they-want-bad-and-good/766844 "2016-09-25T17:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonology-are-there-demons-who-do-whatever-they-want-bad-and-good/766844/42 "2016-09-26T05:13:42Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > No, because as much as you would like them to, demons don’t exist. > . . . > Sounds like you have attached yourself, perhaps unwittingly, to a lot of supernatural mumbo jumbo as a coping mechanism for some possibly unpleasant things that have happened in your life. Past lives, Reiki, archangels, demons; if this is your reality then things are only going to get tougher for you. This is threadshitting. A question challenging the source of the beliefs expressed in the context that such beliefs are contradicted by the traditions regarding demons in Ancient Greek, Muslim, Japanese, or other cultures that expressed a belief in demons is legitimate. A simple denial that such beings exist or an attempt to perform long-distance psych evals on the poster are not appropriate to this discussion. [/Moderating] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonology-are-there-demons-who-do-whatever-they-want-bad-and-good/766844)._