(October 25, 2019 at 6:04 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: During my time in the Catholic church and at Catholic school exorcism was sort of glossed over. We didn't talk about that any more than we talked about pedophile priests.
You didn't? Well back when I was a kid in the 90s I decided for my own amusement to enroll, for a short time, in a religious class in the school that was held by a woman Catholic teacher-theologian. And I can't say that it wasn't amusing hearing those insane people, like theologians, talk. There I found out about the exorcism because she couldn't stop talking about it. She would say "Oh I used to like that name Damian, but since the movie 'Omen' I hate it." She talked about exorcisms and fairy tales about it, the movie "The Exorcist" and so on. I must say she was (and still probably is) one fascinating lunatic.
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"
