You say you can't side with either point of view then immediately pick a side.

And life is nothing but middles. When you're grown enough to consider multiple equally valid perspectives, you can see how something that seems good to one is a vile evil to another. There are universal truths, like "don't kill anyone unless there's absolutely no choice in self-defense," but those principles are not sentient beings. They're human notions.

It's the human brain that craves simple binaries, because/but that's not how life is.

Life is a gradient, a spectrum. Try and see more "colors," more variety and diversity, besides white and black. That's how the Egyptians and Babylonians saw things.

The difference, at least as far as I understand, is that both Egyptians and Babylonians regarded demons as something much more neutral than Christian demons. In Christianity, to be a demon is to be pure evil, period and full stop. In Egypt and Babylon, they were more like djinni, powerful supernatural creatures who could help or hurt depending on both their whims and the disposition of the person invoking them.

I mean, shit, you don't see Catholics with a statue of Lucifer hanging up over their mantel because he's the most powerful of the air demons. But that's precisely what Babylonians did.

Anyway, that was my point - Christianity (and perhaps other Judeo-Christian religions, but I don't know as much about them) alone seems to think that any supernatural being that isn't God itself or very obviously an angel is somehow pure evil.

Funny how Christianity has the biggest problem with demons.