(November 21, 2009 at 7:03 pm)amw79 Wrote: /snip
The dubious morality is sending a herd of innocent animals to their death.
The anthropomorphizing you just pulled kinda killed it.
The way I was raised, Christian demons were self-interested entities that served the only purpose of driving usually a set of emotions and behaviours that are aberrant to society. As they are counter to Christian angels, also taught to me as the "hands" of God and therefore extensions of him, it seems to me that then Christian demons are 'lost extensions of God' or a form of automaton - thoroughly aware of God's existence yet working against Him.
Meh. It is nutty. Funny enough, the Norse interpretation of demons stem also from a self interested entity partaking in aberrant actions. Japanese demons are similar, but serve as outgrowths of the activities of nature and humanity, from forest sprites to that silly demon that drinks lamp oil or the one that lives in your sock drawer to more malicious forms like accursed people twisted to express an emotion, usually rage, greed or despair.
Crazy, hnm?
