RE: Stupid things religious people say
Yesterday at 9:52 am
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Inside the world of Catholic exorcisms in the Philippines
Filipino exorcists say there’s been a surge in cases, and they’re engaged in a spiritual war.
But health professionals warn exorcisms can be dangerous, with the risk of mental and physical health issues being misdiagnosed as spiritual problems.
"Psychologists describe the phenomenon as mass hysteria or mass emotional contagion—when one person's stress or panic is mirrored by others as a way of expressing unprocessed emotions.
But Father Mendoza says it's a result of multiple demons attacking simultaneously."
Filipino exorcists say there’s been a surge in cases, and they’re engaged in a spiritual war.
But health professionals warn exorcisms can be dangerous, with the risk of mental and physical health issues being misdiagnosed as spiritual problems.
"Psychologists describe the phenomenon as mass hysteria or mass emotional contagion—when one person's stress or panic is mirrored by others as a way of expressing unprocessed emotions.
But Father Mendoza says it's a result of multiple demons attacking simultaneously."
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"
