May 10, 2025
If we assume demons are not real, then there is no good reason for neo-Platonists to have made up demons and invent a wide-spread problem of how unreliable demons are. If the unreliability were just a matter of them not doing the magic sometimes, it might make sense. Yet the specific behavior—the two-faced nature of it, the emphasis on sexual deviancy and “trolling”—is unsettling and specific, and it suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon beyond merely human fancy. ~ Robert Cotton