Stupid things religious people say

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The music composer for the film "The Passion of the Christ" was attacked by Satan

John Debney is used to writing movie scores for comedies like Liar, Liar and Bruce Almighty, but he admits that composing the score for Mel Gibson's powerful movie, The Passion of the Christ, was the most difficult assignment of his life.

Debney said that the battle he felt with Satan as he wrote the music became "really personal between us." He went on to say, "I had all these computers and synthesizers in my studio and the hard drives would go down and the digital picture that lives on the computer with the music would just freeze on his [Satan's] face. Then the volume would go to ten and it would happen all the time.

"The first time it happened, it scared me. Once I got over the initial shock of that, I learned to work around it and learned to reboot the computers and so I would start talking to him.

"There was one day when I had been on the movie for about four months when it really became bad that day and a lot of things that were causing doubt in me and I had had enough. The computers froze for about the tenth time that day and it was about nine o'clock at night and so I got really mad and I told Satan to manifest himself and I said, 'Let's go out into the parking lot and let's go.' It was a seed change in me. I knew that this was war. I am not a physical person, but I was really angry on this occasion.

"I am up on the second floor and on the bottom floor of my building there are therapists and they see patients until midnight and their windows are right at the parking lot and I was coming down the stairs and I had had it. I had booted everything down and saved it and I was walking down the stairs and I was verbalizing and saying to Satan, 'Manifest yourself right now.' As I am walking out and saying, 'Come on, let's go now,' I looked over and I could see someone looking at me and I realized how silly I must have looked." He didn't manifest himself, but I wished he would have. It changed for me after that."

https://www.cbn.com/entertainment/music/...music.aspx

My bold.

If only they'd apply that sanity check when they're thinking about it (or in this case, having a full blown internal dialogue) , not just when they think people can see them. I guess we should just be thankful that he didn't go so far as to project the Devil onto the guy he saw and end up beating up some random bloke in the street.