Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru is sorry for the inconvenience.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Generally if you link directly to shit on Facebook or X or Threads, you can anticipate your content going tits up in short order.

[Fake Messiah]

Ken Ham has his own school & high school called Answers Academy Christian school. It is situated in the building Toyota used as its national headquarters in Kentucky.

[Fake Messiah]

'They're only demons' -- Newark exorcist shares insights at Bridgwater talk

Father Glenn Sudano, cofounder of the Franciscan Fathers of the Renewal and official exorcist of the Archdiocese of Newark, had that advice for students of a college seminary about demonic influence. Seminarians reported growling noises outside their rooms, drawers opening and closing by themselves, and unseen hands banging on doors. Father Sudano said that the next time they heard or saw any supernatural activity, they should simply say: "Stop it. This is my room. Get out of the room."

After that, and another blessing, the disturbances stopped. Sure, Father Sudano said, the demons were making noise and causing a disturbance -- but an eight-year-old can do that.

"These things take advantage of our fear, anxiety, and Hollywood, whatever we have in our head, and they know that."

A few dozen people came to hear Father Sudano, 71, speak about his 12 years as an exorcist. Hollywood, he said, "often gets it wrong" about exorcism, to the point that even priests are unnecessarily scared of demons. This was his chance to set the record straight.

Demons, he explained, are fallen angels who despise God. He described them as operating sort of like the mafia. While most people consider Satan to be the opposite of God, God has no opposite. However, for the sake of a compelling story, Hollywood portrays exorcisms as an epic struggle between an evenly-matched good and evil.

The most important thing he wants people to understand is that demons are real. They don't necessarily look like cartoon devils with horns and tails, but that is how they appear to frighten people in their imaginations. Following the logic of St. Thomas Aquinas, who said that every angel is its own species, then every demon must be its own species, as well. Father Sudano said that the difference between two demons can be as stark as the difference between an elephant and a rabbit.

"Quite frankly, some demons, they may be strong," he said. "They don't necessarily immediately react to, say, holy water. Others, they don't like it at all."

Other demons, he said, "are really stupid."

https://www.thebostonpilot.com/AMP/amp_a...?ID=198842

[Silver]

When it's part of your profession, you kind of have to keep up appearances.

[zebo-the-fat]

Still waiting for evidence of demons (and pixies, elves etc.)

[Sheldon]

"God bless you all"

To a forum of atheists...

"Jamie Smithie

God bless you all."