(April 30, 2017 at 6:36 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Actually, the story of The Exorcist was based on a real case, and his name was (at least in the literature written about this case) Roland Doe. That said, while we only have the priests' words for it, even one of the priests there admitted that there was still a distinct possibility that Roland was either mentally ill or just making the whole thing up.
Well, sure man. I mean I gather you have some christian background that is tempting you to believe exorcisms could be real. I mean I bet you brush off any claims that some movies about jinns (genies) could be real, which are believed by millions of Muslims to be real and are active in human affairs today.
If you look at youtube you can find many "real" jinn exorcisms.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
