It's not just Christians. Religious Jews will pray 3 times a day and at the end will bow in 3 different directions, one to Michael, one to Gabriel, and then straight ahead (God). On Friday night, when the husband arrives home from evening service, the family sings a song to welcome the pair of angels that followed him home and then to send them away. On preperation for repentance, there are a series of poems (Kinot), and one of them directly asks an angel to deliver a message to God, and the Rambam criticised such a thing, but it is still in the collection of prayers (granted, a few communities omit it, but only out of deference to the Rambam). And, of course (based on the book of Daniel), when two nations are fighting, the belief that it is an expression of their angesl who are fighting, since each nation has it's own angel.
For demons, religious Jews will wash their hands first thing in the morning because Dybbuks reside under the fingernails (tiny demons). Feminist Jewsesses have accepted Lilith as a symbol of their plight, who is the mother of demons (as a result of wanting to have the dominant sexual position with Adam). The last recorded exorcism was by the Chofetz Chaim, but the idea of posession is not unheard of. And, of course, the Babylonian Talmud is full of ghosts, and demons (especially those who dwell in the latrines and ruins), and many students of those texts have taken them to be lieterally true and, therefore, unquestioned in their authenticity.
Yeah, people love this Angel and Demon stuff. I don't think it matters which religion.
For demons, religious Jews will wash their hands first thing in the morning because Dybbuks reside under the fingernails (tiny demons). Feminist Jewsesses have accepted Lilith as a symbol of their plight, who is the mother of demons (as a result of wanting to have the dominant sexual position with Adam). The last recorded exorcism was by the Chofetz Chaim, but the idea of posession is not unheard of. And, of course, the Babylonian Talmud is full of ghosts, and demons (especially those who dwell in the latrines and ruins), and many students of those texts have taken them to be lieterally true and, therefore, unquestioned in their authenticity.
Yeah, people love this Angel and Demon stuff. I don't think it matters which religion.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
