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Mintaka,Also, I don’t think we need to assume that demons are responsible for everything bad in the world. Humans are quite capable of being demonically evil, all by themselves.
I truly like everything you wrote here. Very formal and reasonable; however, I have one quibble (bolded part): I don’t believe that it can be said that human beings are capable of anything truly “demonically evil.” There is a difference in both nature and power here (especially intellect): demons really are capable of greater evil than we humans and, moreover, their evil (or hate or hatred) to us is truly and completely inhuman: i.e., even evil men, since they always retain their human nature as such, are disturbed, revolted, disgusted, overwhelmed, etc., by the evil of the Evil One: it is an evil we cannot bear and it is disproportionate to our nature, which the devil absolutely hates and detests. A human being, I suppose, could feign or immitate this hatred, but he could never reach or accomplish it on the same level, as it were, or with the same force (again as it were).
Certainly, then, a human being is incapable of being as evil as a demon without, at least, the assistance* of *a demon in that effort. Consequently, we are at least not truly capable of it “all by [ourselves].” Now, if even simple human wickedness (or evil) is capable of such great horror and scandal, imagine what the demons would do if they populated the earth/coporeal world as men populate the corporeal world.
The only thing I think a human being is capable of being “more evil” in is the one thing peculiar to us: in relation to God’s grace. The demons are not offered and never had this peculiar grace (no second chance for a devil) and, therefore, cannot offend against it: we, however, can and do.
God bless!