Interesting. When I factor in the obvious existence of good and evil, and know that usury and enslavement are evils that emanate from the soul of the perpetrator, I am left with the understanding that those evil acts start in the spiritual realm. What would prevent that evil activity from occurring in the spiritual realm?
We don't know anything about the rules "over there". They hold all of the cards. How do you arrive at your belief?
A lifetime of study and thought about world religious beliefs. I don’t believe we can draw the kind of comparisons you suggest between this material plane and the spiritual one, and the Unity of God doesn’t leave room, in my mind, for a Devil and Demons. But God did give man free will and sometimes our own choices create hellish circumstances for us and pervert our mentalities.
Just like you, I’m comfortable with my conclusions. I think expression of individual beliefs can make for interesting conversation; but too often they break down into argument over sectarian doctrine. I have no desire to change another person’s mind. Spiritual issues are highly individual and subjective, and no two people ever really see them in the same way.
And I don’t think they need to do.