A curator at the British Museum discovers the oldest known drawing of a ghost from a 3500-year-old Babylonian tablet. The Guardian reports, “It is part of an exorcist’s guide to getting rid of unwanted ghosts by addressing the particular malaise that brought them back to the world of the living – in this case, a ghost in desperate need of a companion.”
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...seum-vault
But how could they perform an exorcism thousands of years before Jesus was born? Don't they need to say "power of christ compels you" for the ghost to be exorcised?
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...seum-vault
But how could they perform an exorcism thousands of years before Jesus was born? Don't they need to say "power of christ compels you" for the ghost to be exorcised?
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"
