Stupid things religious people say

[Ahriman]

TV screens are portals from which demons can enter your house.

‘Full House’ Star Candace Cameron Bure: ‘I Don’t Even Want Someone Watching a Scary Movie in Our House’ Because ‘That’s a Portal’ to Something ‘Demonic’

Do not put a scary movie on the TV at Candace Cameron Bure‘s house or, as Bure calls it, “the portal.”

“Like if you’re watching this, or you’re playing this video game, or whatever, that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home,” Bure said. “I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because to me, that’s just a portal.”

Bure maintains there is something inherently esoteric about the filming process.

“Listen, I’m in the film industry,” Bure added. “I understand how it all works. I know that movie has a crew of 200 people, and they’re lighting it, and they’re adding the sound effects, and it’s makeup, and the camera, people, and actors. However, there’s still something that can be incredibly demonic while they’ve made it.”

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/candace...236428915/

Gee, no fucking shit?

[Ahriman]

Buddhists say, "Desire leads to suffering", but that's not even true. It's not true at all. If anything, desires are a distraction from suffering, and lessen suffering. Suffering is a mood disorder. It has nothing to do with your desires. Have all the desires you want.

[Silver]

Buddhists say, "Desire leads to suffering", but that's not even true. It's not true at all. If anything, desires are a distraction from suffering, and lessen suffering. Suffering is a mood disorder. It has nothing to do with your desires. Have all the desires you want.

It leads to suffering in that not getting what you desire affects you negatively.

[Fake Messiah]

Not even Richard Dawkins can help you now. Here is your proof: angels caught on camera (and one mermaid).

[Silver]

Italian teenager Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint on September 7

Acutis, an Italian teenager who died from leukemia in 2006, will be declared a saint by Leo at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square expected to be attended by thousands of young people.


Acutis was just 15 when he died, but during his short life he used his computing skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith by setting up a website that documented reports of miracles.

The Vatican said on Friday that following a meeting with cardinals Pope Leo will canonize Acutis in September, along with another youthful saint, Pier Giorgio Frassatti, who died in 1925 at age 24. Acutis’ canonization had been scheduled for April 27 but was postponed after the death of Pope Francis.

CNN

[Angrboda]

I'm willing to bet that Ignaz Semmelweis and Louis Pasteur have not made the list.

[Fake Messiah]

Mad vs. sad: Sociologists will travel to Western Ireland to witness a new wave of Catholic hysteria as clergy perform exorcisms.

My life as an exorcist: ‘I have been spat at, punched, choked, bitten and kicked by demons’

"The old idea of an exorcist being a single guy walking in with his black suitcase: those days are over,” he told Review in Knock last weekend. These days, exorcists work as part of a team. “We have psychologists. We have medical doctors. We have clinicians. We have tough guys to pull the person down and someone who deals with the person outside the session.”

Another thing cinema gets wrong is the portrayal of an exorcism as a one-off deliverance.

“For the truly possessed, the process of liberation typically takes two to four years, if everything works well. And some residual demonic harassment can be lifelong,” Rossetti explains matter-of-factly.

Rather shockingly, cinema’s chilling depictions of vomiting, levitation, demonic voices, screaming, unexplained bruising and scratching on the victim’s body, as well as flying objects are accurate, according to the priest.

Spiritual warfare against the forces of darkness is alive and kicking and this former US Air Force intelligence officer, who holds a doctorate in psychology from Boston College, is at the vanguard of the Catholic Church’s deliverance of the possessed.

“Over the years of doing exorcisms, I have been repeatedly spat at in the face, knocked down and suffered a concussion, choked several times to the point of passing out (demons have a surprisingly strong grip), bitten and suffered teeth marks, cussed out innumerable times, threatened often, and punched and kicked; and my ritual books have been ripped, and holy objects have been thrown across the room. And if the session goes well, the afflicted person will scream, thrash uncontrollably, and vomit lots of white foam. Though I go into each session with confidence in the Lord, and I know I am basically protected, it is still a battle,” the priest explains.

“One of the signs someone is possessed is what we call superhuman strength. What that really means is the person does things that human beings can’t do, but only demons can do. You’ll see cases where people will levitate and do all sorts of things which can’t be explained humanly speaking.”

He refers to the 2012 Ammons case in Indiana where social workers, police and medical staff observed the children in the family making growling noises, and the seven-year-old boy walked up the wall backwards. “It does happen,” he says. “It’s demonic antics. They’re trying to take over the session. They’ll throw things across the room.”

The exorcist’s ‘weapons’ are holy water, a crucifix, relics of saints, and specific prayers of the church. A trim and fit-looking 74-year-old, he shows little exhaustion despite this arduous role which many priests avoid. Many are fearful. But there has been an increased demand for his ministry and he believes the spike in possessions is due to the decline in faith and more interest in the occult.

"One of the first things the demons say is: ‘You stupid priest’. They hate priests."

“Many times when you have a possessed woman, they’ll become seductive and they’ll try to seduce the priest. I just look at them and say, ‘you know, I’m too old for this. Leave me alone!’”

One of the primary portals for demons, according to Rossetti, is dabbling in the occult and witchcraft. Ireland’s fascination with these reached new heights when Bambie Thug represented the country in the Eurovision Song Contest.

He is dismissive of those who practise any form of witchcraft. “People say, ‘I’m a good witch.’ You’re not a good witch. You’re just a witch. There’s no such thing as good witchcraft. Every time you throw a curse or cast a spell, you are making an implicit contract with Satan. They’ll get mad at me for saying that, and I’ll have witches cursing me and attacking me.”

https://m.independent.ie/news/my-life-as...34673.html

So if demons give people superhuman strength, there should be exorcists, along with the anti doping teams, on Olympic games and other sporting competitions to make sure people aren't cheating by being possessed.

[zebo-the-fat]

Oh those poor demons being made homeless, it's just cruel!

[The Grand Nudger]

Former air force officer, says he's witnessed levitation. That'd shorten kill chain. Guessing he hasn't taken it to his old bosses.

[Fake Messiah]

I was reading "Toilers of the Sea" by Victor Hugo, where he wrote about how some of the Christian clergy in the 19th century were against the steamboat, which was then a new technology.

In that Puritanical Archipelago, where the Queen of England has been censured for violating the Scriptures by using chloroform during her accouchments, the first steam-vessel which made its appearance received the name of the “Devil Boat.” In the eyes of these worthy fishermen, once Catholics, now Calvinists, but always bigots, it seemed to be a portion of the infernal regions which had been somehow set afloat. A local preacher selected for his discourse the question of “Whether man has the right to make fire and water work together when God had divided them. This beast, composed of iron and fire, did it not resemble Leviathan? Was it not an attempt to bring chaos again into the universe? This is not the only occasion on which the progress of civilisation has been stigmatised as a return to chaos.
[...]
In the year 1807, when the first steamboat of Fulton, commanded by Livingston, furnished with one of Watt’s engines, sent from England, and manoeuvred, besides her ordinary crew, by two Frenchmen only, André Michaux and another, made her first voyage from New York to Albany, it happened that she set sail on the 17th of August. The Methodists took up this important fact, and in numberless chapels, preachers were heard calling down a malediction on the machine, and declaring that this number 17 was no other than the total of the ten horns and seven heads of the beast of the Apocalypse. In America, they invoked against the steamboats the beast from the book of Revelation; in Europe, the reptile of the book of Genesis. This was the simple difference.

Fulton was a new incarnation of Lucifer. The simple people on the coasts and in the villages were confirmed in their prejudice by the uneasiness which they felt at the outlandish sight. The religious view of steamboats may be summed up as follows: Water and fire were divorced at the creation. This divorce was enjoined by God himself. Man has no right to join what his Maker has put asunder; to reunite what he has disunited.