The bible uses demons more as metaphors of the saying: power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely.

(evil spirit however is a real thing).

So you're not wrong.

It's amazing how as soon as fast communication became available, how cartoonish villainous the powerful people turned out to be.

Cartoon villains are that way for absurdist comedy purposes, they weren't supposed to reflect reality.

Funny enough, the video game Doom is actually making this exact point I discovered somewhat recently.

If you want an humourous take based on this notion, read the Laundry Files book series by Charles Stross

There’s something profound behind that funny observation. God is a creation of the human mind, yet humanity forgets that it created God. The idea then appears as something external, becoming an independent power that shapes and controls human consciousness. Humans become alienated from what they themselves produced.

This was Feuerbach’s insight, and Marx extended it: just as humanity creates God and then treats him as an autonomous force, it also creates Capital. But Capital comes to operate as if it were an external, self-moving—almost “demonic”—power. People end up acting not according to human needs, but according to the logic of Capital itself.

From this perspective, the Marxist project is not merely a struggle against the bourgeoisie; it is an effort to overcome humanity’s alienation from its own creations—to reclaim power from the human-made “demon” that has come to dominate social life.

The demon is greed and its false god is the market.

“Big oil” is not demonic it is your God as much as it is everyone’s God that uses electricity and all the things you have that are only possible through oil. You are likely not even remotely aware of just how many things you have and do that are only possible because of oil.

Hint: it’s basically 100% of things you have and do. Even your minor deities, Renewable Energy are all a creation and possible due to your God, Big Oil.

Nope. That's the divine invisible hand of the market.

Or they like staying in business and producing energy that people willingly purchase.

Welp, it has worked ok for most of us. It’s below zero outside my house is at 22C and I have strawberries and avocados on the kitchen counter. This weekend I’ll drive with my family to a wedding 500km away and will spend $40 in transportation. With all I hate O&G can’t deny it has made my life easier in many ways.