>With our societal move away from religion, we lost (what I think is) the useful metaphor of demons to explain some behaviours What we lost with religion is th

>With our societal move away from religion, we lost (what I think is) the useful metaphor of demons to explain some behaviours What we lost with religion is the belief in literal demons controlling people as an explanation for human behavior. Demons as metaphor is not a religious concept per se, and such metaphors still exist within secular society.