(January 8, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Insanity Wrote: 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.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
