I'll let Ash resolve the rest of the questions since he was the one participating in the discussion.
So this is mainly a problem with terminology. On the one hand, CH removes the demon label from all entities who are known as demonic throughout history and pins the demon label on a type of entity that no DA practitioner working with demons would touch with a 10 foot pole. On the other hand, practitioners here in the meta-community and throughout occult history have long worked successfully with Demons.
However, as for CH classifications, we remove all religious labels from our own classifications, and classify on merit. Meaning, these are the nuts & bolts:
White Arts- Causes no harm, positive contribution, uplifting energy
Dark Arts- Choice do to right or wrong, generally no negative actions, dark energy but positive contribution to Keeper's life
Black Arts- Blatant disregard for free will, intentionally causes harm, absolutely no responsibility or moral sense for anyone
It's difficult, and time consuming, for people to wade through the classifications of printed text from even the last 500 years and discern whether or not an entity is truly "demonic", or if in the travels of the text (when it comes to ancient texts) if the occupation of Catholic persons in that native area caused the newly printed text to classify the entity as "demonic".
The problem is, the Catholic church has occupied the globe, and in many cases took gods & goddess in as Saints to pacify the local population, has re-written the standing religious beliefs into a more good vs. evil stand to conform to the Catholic ideology, and classifies entities who have ANYTHING to do with promiscuous sex as "demonic". Because, in the face of Catholic beliefs the belief that anything that could have sex outside of the standard one man, one woman marriage is demonic. Is it? No. Morally questionable? That's for each person to decide for themselves.
The issue also becomes in these re-vitalized texts that the Catholic church classified everything in a very black & white manner. Very little grey area. They are either on the side of good, or the side of bad, and if an entity described in local religion or folklore possessed any traits that seemingly flew in the face of Catholic beliefs, it was evil.
Because of my & Ash's background in theology we opted, in the beginning, to not classify any entity on Creepy Hollows based on the religious overtones from occupation. Which means, you have to actually do the research outside of the internet sites, and outside of the material printed in the last 250 years to find the origins.
Not to mention, anyone who has actually worked with these entities on their own come to find out very quickly that they aren't demonic, they're dark, but not demons. To say the Catholic church has vastly interfered in the ability to correctly catalog & classify entities would be a gross understatement. In their quest to dominate the world they have destroyed ancient history. What would have been better, and far more logical, would have been to preserve history and present their own case for religious beliefs, rather than destroy all that exists in order to make theirs the only choice. Of course, I'm not someone who likes something crammed down my throat. I prefer to have someone believe I'm intelligent enough to have the facts presented to me and I can make up my own mind... but, I am also someone who believes strongly in freedom.
All of the entities & their classification on Creepy Hollows are not biased by religion. We do not begrudge anyone their own religious beliefs, everyone has to find their own path. But, on CH we do not recognize one religion above another, and all of our classifications are based on each, individual entity's merit.
