Who & what are the demons ?

Absence of evidence proves the absence of evidence.In a court of law, the prosecution is obliged to prove its case by producing evidence that supports their case. If they can not do that the Judge will dismiss the case..The defence can sit on its hands and say nothing at all except:"M'lord, I move to dismiss the case for lack of evidence".That's what we're doing here. Produce the evidence or remove the claim.Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

The verdict is not guilty - beyond reasonable doubt

Buses exist and people take them, so I feel able to believe you. But if you'd said you rode home on dragonback, I'd ask for more evidence."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Neither are necessarily the truth just because you say it.But the bus is rather more believable than the dragon, don't you think? For me to believe that you rode a dragon, I would first - and at the very least - need to have proof that dragons actually exist, because I don't think that they do and can find no objective evidence of them. In short, I'd be a fool to believe you.Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

If something is not evident to us, it's impossible to know anything at all about it - let alone call it true or believe in it.Your stone age guy didn't believe in black holes but he probably believed that gods threw lightening bolts to the ground. He believed that because he knew that lightening bolts existed but had no idea how they worked so had to invent a method. The god invention solved a problem until it could be solved properly.So, no, I don't need to see you getting on a bus to believe that you did it - that's because it's a believable statement. It's a believable statement because it's commonplace. I now 'believe' in blackholes because they are supported by evidence - it's become a commonplace. I would believe in your god if it was supported by evidence - as it stands, his existence is as obvious as blackholes were to your stone age man.

The Catholic church has accepted evolution for generations. They just say that god sticks a soul in Homo sapiens at the correct moment.Just more bizarre bollocks invented to maintain their absurd beliefs.Evolution and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

You're all over the place again - confused by simple-minded, copycat preachings. What we like to do is usually good for us and not necessarily selfish at all. From what I'm reading about you, you need to get out and do more of what you enjoy doing that is good for you, not less. Helping others is also good for us and isn't at all spiritual - it's a basic human instinct. Both things are totally natural, understandable and thoroughly earthbound.
You're not doing yourself any good buying into this drivel.

Surely you're not mediaeval enough to diagnose schizophrenia as demon posession? That's just silly. And bloody dangerous.

Evidence please.

Do you really need to ask that?You think a child would know and understand the religious stories without being taught them almost from birth? It's not a coincidence that you're a Christian but it is an accident of birth. To have been a believer of any other religion you would have had to have been born to different parents, often in a different country.There are exceptions where people swop religions later in life but there are NO cases of people spontaneously becoming Christians or any other religion without having first learnt of it.Religiosity is learnt behaviour.

Why don't you try arguing it? So children are taught the stories of Jehovah or Allah or Jesus and become Jews, Muslims and Christians.Imagine a world where children are not taught the stories. How do they become believers? They can't spontaneously believe in something they know nothing about.There wouldn't even be a word for what they are would there? They've not learned to be atheist because there's nothing there to not believe in.Given that we have these stories in the world, do people learn to become atheist? No - they mostly have to unlearn belief. But in countries where atheism is the norm, they at least start life without the burden of belief imposed on them and as they learn more about the world they can accept a belief or not as a choice instead of an imposition.

Oh sure, you mean like Mormons, Scientology, Wicca etc.Yup, people just can't help making stuff up, then worshopping it. Some people seek power and more people are gullible. Luckily it's in decline.

Now you're being disingenous.The leaders make the stuff up, the followers worship it.
(And, donate their money of course.)

That's the way all the major religions have started and developed so..... Before I can deny them, you have to tell me what they are.

Not what I'm saying. Primarily, belief is learnt, almost always from birth, but it can be unlearned when better idea are found - as we see is now happening across the developed world.But yes, it can also be a mental aberration triggered by other personal issues sometimes trauma. Survival - grasping at straws to prevent a total breakdown.