Education is sometimes just "belief" by another name. Particularly in the case of things that can't be empirically tested either way.
Obviously, there's no such thing as demons.
I'm not sure how obvious it is. The "educated" conclusion has been that they exist only in fears and confirmation bias, and I'm
inclined to that belief as well, but that's really because they don't fit into the dominant schema based on physical measurement of
known effects (that in itself is somewhat crumbling around the edges of late). Quantum entrainment, for instance, is something we can neither measure nor repeatably demonstrate -- on the basis on which you're dismissing demons, we could similarly say it "obviously" doesn't exist. But we have to somehow incorporate it into our understanding of reality, because our mathematics require it to be there.
We know next to nothing of consciousness. It's largely uncharted, and we have no systems for either quantifying or qualifying it. How can we say what might or might not exist outside our own (limited!) awareness of ourselves?
I'm inclined myself not to believe in demons, and I personally believe there's a lot of absolute guff claimed about them (especially in religious America). But I think it's far, far too early to state categorically that they don't exist.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
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