schizophrenic is a not unreasonable characterization of the hatred of logic that created the middle ages and is once again attempting to dominate 'western' thought. i'm not too sure how specifically accurately the term applies, but 'mentally challenged' would certainly seem to. religious beliefs are created with the good intention to encourage people to want to avoid screwing everything up for each other and to avoid hurting each other. the only problem is the couple of minor details they overlook. one being that you cannot avoid hurting people and screwing things up by hating logic. another being that the more specifically you describe an unknown, in the absence of independently observable evidence, the greater the probability of such a description not being accurate, or even close. it is virtually inevitable for things we don't know to exist. it is even possible for some small percentage of them to not like us very much. considering the popularity of hating logic, that itself makes us easy to not like. but it still overlooks the fact that what we don't know, we don't know. nor does that make anything that wishes to be feared: 'good'. nor does that make everything that refuses to support a hierarchy that supports something, or anything, that wishes to be feared, somehow, in any way, inherently bad. good and evil are not a matter of choosing what, if any, hierarchy to support. they are a matter of making an effort to avoid causing harm, or refusing to do so. that is why, i do not buy the pejorative terminology, of the name and concept of daemon.