If it were not for superstition and ignorance there would be no religion. That is all it has ever been about hocus-pocus. But Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father. And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. Luke 9:42 - 43.
Anneliess Michel was a Catholic woman from Germany. It was alleged that she was possessed by six or more demons and subsequently underwent a series of exorcisms. Anneliese Michel, 23, died after an exorcism in Leiblfing, Germany, in 1976."And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. Luke 9:42 - 43." I guess so?
The responsible parties were put on trial but they got off. There was a disgusting movie based presumably on this case that didn't tell the actual story what so ever. This woman who was subjected to these revolting superstitious rituals was probably very ill to begin with and the exorcisms killed her.
Dec 26, 1973 after a boy aged 17 killed a girl aged nine, he told the police that he had been possessed by evil after seeing The Exorcist (another movie based on a so-called true story) .
In 2007 a New Zealand family drowned a young mother by pouring water down her throat during a Maori exorcism. Janet Moses, 22, died after family members poured water down her throat and into her eyes in an attempt to lift a curse on her, the High Court in Wellington, the capital, was told. A 14-year-old cousin also had her eyes gouged and water poured down her throat during the same ceremony. Six women and three men, all members of Ms Moses' family, were charged with manslaughter.
Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Begin with the book of 1Samuel the witch of Endor conjured up the prophet Samuel for King Saul, to Salem Witch trials, and on to modern day Africa. Religion has spread intolerance and narrow-mindedness. Religion is the curse on humanity. Reports from Congo-Kinshasa: on the gruesome business of exorcism. Prophet Onokoko says he is casting out evil spirits. Congolese children are being accused of witchcraft and made scapegoats for the country's many ills. They believe that many of these children have died from their exorcism. Superstitious people want explanations when things go wrong. Children are being accused of sorcery and chucked onto the streets. More than 14,000 children in Kinshasa are said to have been thrown out of their homes accused of witchcraft. All will have to undergo some kind of ritual exorcism to expunge the evil spirits.
Victim of brutal murders has swept the Tanzanian shore of Lake Victoria. Many of the murdered are elderly women, often widows, brutally hacked to death with pangas or machetes by people who suspect them of practising witchcraft. People dislike the killings, even though most still strongly believe that witchcraft does exist.
There is no doubt that many of these killings are planned. People repeatedly spoke of a gang of killers paid to murder suspected witches. Although the killers were known and were caught and sentenced, they were released less than a year later.
Most people do not realize that Roman citizens did not consider Christianity "all that and a bag of chips" when Constantine first concocted it. There was a great deal of religious deceit, and outrageous lies committed by the church fathers in order to spread the big lie.
St. Jerome "There is nothing so easy as by sheer volubility to deceive a common crowd or an uneducated congregation."
The first church was Catholic and those priests were the first (church fathers) because the first ever-Christian church was in Rome and it was of course the Catholic Church. Other denominations of Christianity came much later. These priests spread superstition and fanaticism. They wanted the followers to be willing to die, or to kill others, for the new faith. Today many Catholics have tried to distance themselves from their days of yore exorcisms, but the charismatic have latched onto this money maker along with healing and miracles. Protestants once ridiculed Catholics for believing these things in the past, until they realized two things, saving people from evil is about the only reason they have to exist, and it does make money. I feel very confident that this is one of the ways to keep religion going to this day, and no doubt about it, they will tell any lie to keep this good thing going.
Most of the texts in both the Hebrew bible and the New Testament were forged in the names of their authors to give them 'authority.' The main figures in these plagiarized stories never existed. They were all merely the rehashing of other ancient mythological figures.
There was never one word of truth in any of the stories used to teach the illiterate uneducated peasant. These stories were meant to entertain and plant particular ideas in their heads. They made up the story of a humble virgin who was chosen to be the mother of the Son of God. However, it was the very same myth that had been told in other cultures and with many different names.
Eusebius "it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who want to be deceived."
There is no evidence for the existence of a devil or Satan. The only proof of the existence of spiritual figures or evil entities is what they supposedly can do to a person, which means they possess the person and take over their soul. However, beyond any doubt these yarns are folklore and nothing more. Some resourceful and imaginative ancient priest who witnessed someone having a fit or suffering from mental illness probably thought up the demon possession lie.
The world is full of utter complete fools who believe that there is a red man with a pitchfork and horns called the devil. The Christian Satan fictional character was made up by deceitful religious practitioners to frighten idiots into the fold.
