This goes deeper than surface religion... "God is good" and "demons are bad". For humans, nature is a neutral, chaotic force... it can easily be, and often is, personified as demonic. "Forest spirits", as I called them, are more often portrayed as monsters than benevolent fairies. Furthermore, priests are not inherently good. World priests work for world goals, they are generally pro-human and anti-violence against humans, anti-destruction, and anti-nature. Yes, this is a schism in philosophy, cognitive dissonance, but most human beings are not smart enough to understand this and simply keep on trucking with their twisted self-serving philosophies.
As far as "and they descended upon earth to strengthen their ranks", I take "earth" as being the realm of humans, who are below nature. Nature is greater than earth and is a cosmic force that comes down to earth to give it life, or take it away. Earth is not the center of the universe. I was careful not to say "earth's natural law", as you did, I merely said "natural law". When angels come down to earth, they are not of the earth, but they are closer to natural law than the creatures of the earth.
If the point of the movie was merely that "Borgman is bad and he steals children for selfish reasons"... what was the point of illustrating so thoroughly the folly of man in general, and the ideological reasoning why he should lose his children? It's because the movie is about the evils of humanity, not of Borgman. Borgman is an unconscious neutral force, like gravity. He flows like water through the family, and, at odds with this natural law, the family destroys and loses it's own offspring. Borgman didn't come in and steal the children, the family gave up their children, and the children were lost to nature. Watch the movie again, with the knowledge that Borgman is a metaphorical creature, and doesn't actually exist. He represents the nightmares and degradation through fear of the family, an institution against natural law.
Whether you think the metaphorical "actions" of Borgman are "right" or "wrong", they seem to me to be merely an illustration of reality, and the physical mechanisms of the natural structure that we are all indebted to for survival. You can stare up at the stars and scream "you're wrong" all you want, it won't make them go away.
We CAN look at "Borgman" as a simple home invasion thriller with a supernatural twist... but so much is esoterically conveyed beyond that simple premise. This is a morally complicated and very mature fantasy, in which Borgman is the hero and saves the children from a fate worse than death, an unnatural life.
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