First, the terminology (or “preramble”):
DEVIL refers to any of the heavenly spirits that fell from grace in the uprising against God (This is a loose description of the event); Alternatively DEVIL refers to their leader who is not specifically named in the text which recounts the event, but who is often believed to be Satan.
DEMON refers to the spirits of the giant offspring of devils and human wimmin. Demons were created on Earth, and so their spirits must remain here, and have no access to Heaven. Human spirits were created in Heaven and there they return. The giants, you will recall, were spurned by their full-blooded human brethren because they strained the food resources to sustain their enormity. Hungry, they exercised Solomon-esque wisdom and took to eating humans–end of the conflict. But they never forgave humans for their cruelty, and adopted the program of their fathers and bent their will toward the destruction of God’s creation.
And now, The Ramble.
Demons are widely regarded as evil because they are thought to possess human bodies and use them as vehicles for dastardly deeds. I call bollocks on this detail. Such openly hostile entities would soon be identified and avoided if not destroyed. Not only is that interpretation simplistic & medieval, it is also just plain wrong.
Demons are so dangerous because they are impossible to identify. It is through our inability to know a demon when we see one that they gain the license to destroy us so completely. They remain unknown because they themselves do not know what they are! The destruction they wreak is as completely unintentional as the pain a tiger causes its prey. Both are merely acting according to their nature, the tiger kills and killing is never painless for the victim; the demon in turn acts according to its nature and generates the spiritual and emotional agony upon which it feeds.
We all know a demon, for they are many. Think of any small group of people who are hopeless, depressed, dissatisfied with their lives to the point of absolute despair. And isn’t there someone in their midst with an attachment to each who’s every endeavor seems to be one of ernest succour? He always wants to help, always is acting in the moment to just make people feel better, even if only for a little while; and when that moment is over, their troubles are compounded by the thoughtlessness of their actions in his presence, and their confusion and lack of direction blossoms into full blown despair…and the need for the demon increases as surely as an addiction requires increasingly greater doses–until a lethal limit is discovered.
And the demon knows not what it is, for it is born of woman, embodied of flesh and raised amongst the flock which will become its prey. So subtle and unconscious is its need for grief that it will surround itself with the outcast, the downtrodden, the hapless victims of man’s inhumanity to man…and it will nurture them, and bleed them until they wither. What man can possibly damn a demon to a fate worse than the one its creator’s Creator forsaw and saw fit to permit? In its innocence it leads souls to their own willing destruction, and the despair of those souls as they wither is contagious. It draws other people into the circle, who would give freely of themselves in an effort to comfort their brethren. Once weakened, the demon steps up and wields pity on the newcomer and the noose tightens around yet another victim.
) Because if so, then I’m one helluva demon 
