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I’m watching a tv show on the more spiritual tv channel, and it’s about exorcism. There’s a Catholic priest saying he’s done 65,000, but he also said that it takes many years to free someone from the devil, which i found surprising. That’s not what horror movies lead you to believe. The priest said sometimes it takes 15 years. strange.

I’ve had experiences that I thought were the devil at first, because I was raised Catholic and had that sort of sensibility. Now I don’t think the devil and demons can attack people that way, otherwise probably everybody would be attacked. I’m not sure what was going on in the Bible, what with all the possessed people wandering around.. but it was probably the same thing that goes on now when people think they are possessed.. dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, some sort of mental fragmenting where the pieces that break off appear to be not part of you anymore, but still in you. these could easily be called demons, or in fact be taken advantage of by real demons. who knows..

I’m not saying a negative spiritual world doesn’t exist, i just don’t think they have much power over us, except to perhaps lie, like the serpent in the garden. we all know that bad beliefs can lead us to hell in a rail cart, but we also know the truth will set us free.

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  1. hehe, not a Christian i take it? well I’m a Christian, and what makes me wonder the most is why does it take 15 years to convince the devil to leave in the name of Jesus, i mean either they got to or they don’t.. seems to point to psychiatric illness to me… i enjoyed your mini rant tho lol you seem a bit passionate on the subject :) it does make you wonder why God doesn’t explain the future to us though, in a booming voice from the sky, NO NO NO , IT’S SCHIZOPHRENIA! guess it’s just coz it’s as easily healed by Jesus no matter what they call it. God has a way of being quiet about things aye?

    1. ElaineNo Gravatar on August 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
  2. Exactly. When the Bible was written by persons unknown, millennia ago, no one knew about depression, mental disorder, OCD, Tourette’s syndrome or any of the dozens of afflictions of the brain and mind that we are aware of today, so they did what primitive man always did in the face of the unexplainable, and ascribed it to some supernatural agency, in this case demons, devils and the whole pandaemonium. Anyone suffering from any of these disorders needs medical and/or psychiatric help. The last thing they need is some priest prancing about the place, waving a cross around and chanting drivel.

    2. NicholasNo Gravatar on August 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
  3. Hey Elaine….I’ve left an award for you on my blog. Go check it out!!

    3. ElaineNo Gravatar on August 18th, 2008 at 7:23 am

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