I'm thinking that, if you're going to be a christian, you MUST believe exactly what jesus said (and I'm positively NOT a christian!). So if jesus says there are demons, he has to be taken at his word. Christianity isn't christianity if you don't take all the jesus stuff literally.

But...I probably shouldn't be involved in this discussion--I've been known to be rather caustically "anti-christian" (actually, anti-abrahamic religions in general. actually anti-THEIST in general   )

But I'm NOT anti the thoughts expressed in your introduction. It's my opinion that if people want to believe that "god is in everything--or, more directly, god IS everything" then why bother with the "god" part?

It seems more direct and simple to see EVERYTHING as having a "sacred" essence, without invoking the VERY confusing and over-used concept of "god."

Though I'm even iffy about the word "sacred..."