RE: Spiritual realm is very likely real (demonic possession)?
May 13, 2021 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2021 at 8:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 13, 2021 at 7:59 pm)Flavius007 Wrote: Why someone believes that he is possessed? I mean, that is kinda weird, these people are suffering alot. Wouldn't cure would be accepting atheism or educated themselves in science. Why go to priest and torture thyself? I don't get it.That they're suffering probably has alot to do with their belief that they've been possessed. Externalizing that suffering and crediting it to a foreign and intentional agent.
Beliefs aren't really curable - the people who hold them find them compelling as that's what's meant to have a belief in the first place. As Boru pointed out before, a person who believes in demonic possession is more likely to also believe that only a priest can help them. It may be an interesting question, why we torture ourselves in any particular way - but ideations and actions around self harm are, likewise, going to pop up in demonic possession stories....so...
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