Demons?

[JuliaL]

There are 2 fine tuning arguments which I hold dear:

The Very Strong Anthropic Principle, which states that the universe we live in is the way it is so that it is a universe that can support the existence of a guy who writes Discworld books. citation to Terry Pratchett

and
Special and Inevitable Anthropic Principle, which was that the entire reason for the existence of the universe was the eventual evolution of the UU Professor of Anthropics blog commenter JuliaL. But this was only a fomal statement of the theory which absolutely everyone, with only some minor details of a `Fll in name here’ nature, secretly believes to be true.

[Tonus]

May I ask what you believed them to be when you did believe?

JWs believe that demons are fallen angels who, like Satan, are aware that their fate is one of destruction and therefore seek to either harm humans or lead them away from god so that they share in that fatal end. They were once able to form human bodies for use, but that ability was stripped from them when they misused it to breed with Earth women (Genesis 6:1-3). They can still have some interaction with the physical world including possession of humans, which is how they explain the stories of ghosts and poltergeists and demonic possession.

As a believer I had a pretty strong fear of demons, and the belief that remaining faithful to god would serve as a protection from them. Having realized that there is no god, it followed logically that there are no demons either. Abandoning the former has not led to any appearances from the latter, as expected.