Personally I only use that to define my desired intended outcome, long-term, and not to explicitly define the types of actions I will take nor the kinds of beings I’ll work with.
Religious people can work with demons, using the traditonal Solomonic method and they certainly cause harm and death, and black magicians can be kind and generous, and even choose to worship a god or other being in an act of subjective synthesis, so the issue of the intended destiny is the only major difference, and the only one that IMO cannot bridged.
I won’t ramble on because I already posted a bunch of stuff about it here: