OgnjenPavkovicArt OP t1_j17drbv wrote on December 22, 2022 at 5:09 AM

Reply to comment by Boner-b-gone in Before Dream! by OgnjenPavkovicArt

Demons can be found in all cultures and religions..Christians had just put lots of emphasis on them. But actually its not that much if you look up ancient Egyptians or Babylonians. Those guys were rocking on their own with demons and such xd

Boner-b-gone t1_j191mp7 wrote on December 22, 2022 at 3:50 PM

The difference, at least as far as I understand, is that both Egyptians and Babylonians regarded demons as something much more neutral than Christian demons. In Christianity, to be a demon is to be pure evil, period and full stop. In Egypt and Babylon, they were more like djinni, powerful supernatural creatures who could help or hurt depending on both their whims and the disposition of the person invoking them.

I mean, shit, you don't see Catholics with a statue of Lucifer hanging up over their mantel because he's the most powerful of the air demons. But that's precisely what Babylonians did.

Anyway, that was my point - Christianity (and perhaps other Judeo-Christian religions, but I don't know as much about them) alone seems to think that any supernatural being that isn't God itself or very obviously an angel is somehow pure evil.

OgnjenPavkovicArt OP t1_j1950j9 wrote on December 22, 2022 at 4:12 PM

Yes, you have the point and thats a good analysis. Thats how one could interpret history and all. To be frank i cant side with ether point of view. Christians, especially during medieval ages gave just too much on demons and making it all go around them and causing mass histeria while Egyptians and other ancients were causing them self harm by looking at demons as neutral.
Theres no middle in universe and no neutrality. You ether serve the ego-lucifer or you serve life- God, and all you can do is pick the side. If one tries to go neutral, because of universe evolving forward, he will fall behind as a result of it.
And also , demons cant really be neutral. They may not harm you , but in the end they all look to satisfy their own goals and ego ( hence the reason why they had fallen away from Gods light and other angels)

Boner-b-gone t1_j198jpx wrote on December 22, 2022 at 4:36 PM

You say you can't side with either point of view then immediately pick a side.

And life is nothing but middles. When you're grown enough to consider multiple equally valid perspectives, you can see how something that seems good to one is a vile evil to another. There are universal truths, like "don't kill anyone unless there's absolutely no choice in self-defense," but those principles are not sentient beings. They're human notions.

It's the human brain that craves simple binaries, because/but that's not how life is.

Life is a gradient, a spectrum. Try and see more "colors," more variety and diversity, besides white and black. That's how the Egyptians and Babylonians saw things.