Demons

Demons are evil; demons are ugly

Demons cause pain, make people cry

Demons cause accidents; people die

Demons cause catastrophes

Demons demonise, demonstrate

Demand, command; have no patience

What they want, they want now

(Sound in any way familiar?)

Might I suggest an idea?

That if demons are real,

They might need re-defining.

A demon is not self-defining

Discussions regarding demons

Arre old as humanity

As old as religion

A question: does religion

Has a pre-requisite for demons?

To study demons is equivalent

To study evil, yes?

Are the two synonymous

Or is that a cultural choice?

Some might say there is a problem with pain

It is a natural response to being physically wounded

Or hurt. Thus, what’s the problem? We learn from it

And become a more responsive and responsible creature

Pain is not necessarily good or bad, this line of thought

Says: it happens, when we choose wrongly.

Is Good vs Evil a question; or a theological assertion?

I don’t know. I would like to examine “evil” as a secular matter

Do demons demonise? No. Humans demonise other humans

For being different, with increasingly destructive effects.

No one makes them or forces them to do so; it is their choice

Ruling elites might encourage such exclusion; they are powerless

To influence anything without the active participation of the populace

The ruling elite declares itself a priori “Good”; 

the excluded are declared a priori “Evil”

The “selected” need not rationalise or explain their behaviour

The situation becomes a neat equation; the result is beyond question

Right is declared might; the excluded become persecuted, pressured

Prosecuted, awaiting the flame to ignite the righteous punishment awaiting them

Not an ugly deformed demon in sight, interesting, huh?

The reign of the uneducated and unenlightened became evident

 in the persecution and prosecution of “witches” in the Middle Ages

And was clearly evident in Nazi Germany in the years leading up 

to the murder of millions in concentration camps

The Gestapo looked frightening, but demons? I think not.

So, here’s my problem: where are the demons?

In someone’s head? A group mental creation?

The formula for potential violence is predicated

In a them/us situation; rejecting a “we”