Unfair Demonization

I see that the Vatican has initiated another round of attacks on demons. Anti-demon sentiment never seems to go out of fashion, especially among religious groups. Demons tend to be unpopular, and their negative reputation is warranted in many cases, but no group of entities deserves to be entirely condemned.

As a psychotherapist working with demons and their hosts to help them either live beneficially together, or separate amicably and without further trauma, it is very difficult for me to see just how often demons continue to be demonized. "Go back to where you came from!" they are told. Most of the demons I work with in my practice are trying to do just that; they have been summoned by a black-arts sorcerer against their will, and want only to return to where they originated. Often their destructive behavior can be attributed to frustration with our corporeal world. A little empathic listening goes a long way to reducing their understandable vexation with humanity.

We see demons depicted in the media as monumental, tragic, and terrifying,
humorous, or silly.
None of these is necessarily true.

This demon,

for example, was beneficial to humanity, or at least not harmful, and was recognized as such by one of our most renowned vampire slayers.

Not all demons, in other words, are like this: