What's gotten into Italians?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

I'm not sure about that. Sure, more stress, more anxiety, more crime....... Those can be addressed by non church entities. 

But why demons and exorcism? It feels like a play to prop up a/another false need for the church.

But here's the thing it's not pragmatic their looking for . Their looking for underlying cause and to many of a religious mindset oogity boogity and demons are that  cause . Monks and religious "scholar" use to blame real world problems on superstition like demons . So i imagine their doing so now .

Christians are supposed to believe in demons and that they have the power to whip their butts.

Mark 16:17 (CEV) =  "Everyone who believes me will be able to do wonderful things. By using my name they will force out demons, and they will speak new languages."

So if a person is a Christian and if he isn't kicking demon butt he's doing it wrong.  He should be sure to keep a herd of pigs handy so that the demons will have a place to go when they are evicted.

[vorlon13]

Indeed.

And don't be eatin' 'em. Jesus wouldn't have.