TheSword
Legend
RL religions are vilified as demon worship? Really?And how this dips into RL stuff is that certain groups have different religions, oft vilified or said to be demon worship without much cause. Then too, we all know the way humans were treated over stupid things like their appearances. Do we really want that to continue in our fantasy worlds? Even if it's "realistic" it's still so exhausting. I HATE seeing that stuff over and over and over again. I want the designers to be better than "oh this species has always been evil so let's leave it that way until enough people complain about it!"
Even were this the case then there is a further problem because in D&D demons are synonymous with ultimate evil… NPCs of a wide variety of races do worship them regularly and the usually insane worshipers of the dozen or so demon lords that get brought up regularly are a staple bad guy.
The fact that Demon worship in D&D is pretty ubiquitous across all races - including human, and elf. Means it’s probably the least racist thing in the game.