(October 25, 2019 at 12:20 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I should point out that IRL, the Vatican has strict guidelines that “the person who claims to be possessed must be evaluated by doctors to rule out a mental or physical illness.” So, if you watched The Exorcist (and the director of that film also directed The Devil and Father Amorth), that's why it took so fucking long to get to the exorcism.
Ha, ha, not really. If you followed the news here you'd see by now that they move quicker than that. But they do want to create that kind of impression because that's the old gimmick that these kind of frauds come with, like "Only 5% of UFO sightings are legitimate" and "90% of crop circles are made by humans".
Even this popular Muslim jinn exorcist claims that only 4% of people claiming to be possessed by jinns are actually possessed by jinns, like there's some sophisticated process behind all of it
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"
