zavvy<br /><br />I assure you that I appreciate your point of view.<br /><br />I was brought up Catholic but my natural experiences taught me from early on that religion doesn't have it all correct. I have not been the first or only to point out that Catholicism taught that evil demons were the cause of disease. Further knowledge and education only keep scientizing natures of spirituality for us, not proving any primitive (unknowing) dogma. Besides that, Catholicism assures me that in its eyes, it is not against God to believe that other people are in the universe, and that if there are, they must be of God's creation the same as we are. I already knew that and agree because it has always been my personal experience.<br /><br />I can't speak for all of what all religions on Earth teach, of course, but I think it is basically the same for all our major religions just because they are all made by the same natures of people and our thought patterns among the same point in our evolutional process. Religions are all made and defined by man. Religions change with our thinking and knowledge. Religion is not God. If you want to know God, so you study religions, you only really learn about the history of man's nature.<br /><br />All of the races believe in one God, the same one God. The understandings of advanced races surpass ours all about it just that much more, but none of them subscribe to any similar concept to ours of any devil or demons or hell, and neither do any other known primitive races. We are the only ones that came up with it and it's clear that it came out of our own fear and unknowing, not out of any knowing.<br /><br />I have met many kinds of beings. Some of them are pretty scary-looking, and the way things happen to meet them, even the good-looking and/or human ones is just as scary in itself. It is no wonder to me where the concepts of evil and bogeymen came from or why they persist. Mix that up with the business of religions and what you have is commercial dogma