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That gets complicated though. Even outside of something like "what is a Lost Soul? Does that mean there are such things as souls? If so, whose are they, and how do they get to hell?", the demons are clearly attached to Christian or Christian-adjacent perceptions of Satanic magic and evil - they use pentagrams for portals, have cities named Limbo or Dis, and there's even a big upside down cross in E2M1 that hurts you if you stand in it.

I think I remember hearing that the Doom novels interpret the demons as just aliens that choose to use human concepts of demons and magic to present themselves, which seems similar to what you're saying.