Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-26884760-20151109021903/@comment-26884760-20151109033623

modern depictions of demons tend to be a lot more fantasy-based than theological based.. remember even in Exorcist it wasn't actually Satan possessing the girl but a spirit that may of just been pretending to be a "demon" to mess with the humans.

I think these days Demon means "malevolent extra-dimensional being / alien that actively harms humans, often disguising themselves as religious "bogeyman" figures to feed on fear".. Fallen Angel, after all, has its own category and is much more specific (in Bible all "demons" are just fallen angels so it'd be redundant to add them to both).

the fallen angel aspect died in medieval times when demons become fantastical monsters crafted by the scholars' vivid imagination and were kind of tools to scare people into a certain way of thinking or to show displeasure at certain things at the time.. thus demons no longer really meant "fallen angel" but simply any powerful, supernatural beast that embodied a social sin or fear.