My "WTF?" of the day, exorcist division...

[Archae]

Yes, there still are religious "leaders" who are stuck in the Dark Ages.



The internet is an essential tool for modern communication, but several Catholic priests are saying it’s also helping lead to an unprecedented epidemic in demonic possession — which is why they are trying to recruit a global exorcist army.

Father Vincent Lampert, the head priest at St. Malachy’s in Indianapolis, tells the New York Post that he and 400 other Catholic leaders recently gathered in Rome “to strategize on how to recruit and train more exorcists in the dark arts, which uses holy water and prayer to combat evil.”

Why does the church suddenly need more exorcists? According to Lampert, the proliferation of pornography on the web — along with the widespread availability of illegal narcotics and information about the occult — has led to a surge in demons taking possession of unsuspecting people all over the world.

“Exorcism is like triage,” the priest told the Post. “We’re the emergency crew — but there aren’t enough of us.”

Marcos Quinones, a New York State chaplain, tells the Post that he believes drug dealers are casting magical spells on the narcotics they sell to make their users more open to demonic possession.

“Many drug traffickers practice forms of the occult,” he explains. “They incorporate voodoo or black magic that gives them the power to succeed. It makes the product more powerful and creates a stronger addict. In essence, they’re doubling the curse the drugs cause anyway… If demons exist and you take a drug that changes your thinking pattern, that opens itself up to the entities of these Demons.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/priest-says-catholic-church-needs-an-army-of-exorcists-to-save-kids-from-demon-tainted-narcotics/

[Iggo]

1. There are people at progressive democratic websites who believe in demonic possession.

Ayup.

[annabanana]

2. Because dragging the world back to the 1800's isn't enough. . .

Thirteenth Century, Here we come!

[Siwsan]

3. Well, if it would work to rid us of trump* and his proposed administration, I say go for it!!

I'll hand out the plastic sheeting to protect us all from the oceans of projectile pea soup spewing.

[lunatica]

4. LOL!

thanks for the laugh!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. The internets possessed me with demons once.

[ymetca]

6. Perhaps the "Demon Internet" is our collective Gnosis

"And their eyes were opened", as it were. Remember, the Catholic Church ruthlessly stamped out the alternative cult, which saw the Garden of Eden as a false paradise, and the Snake/Lucifer as the True God, "enlightening" us so as to escape the prison of delusion.

The Catholic Church is perhaps the last remaining vestige of the Old World, destined to become just as buried in the sands as Ancient Egypt someday.

Future archaeologists might one day unearth the ruins of the Vatican and marvel at how blindly stupid they were, while at the same time being marvelously inventive.

I read once that, towards the end of the Ancient Egyptian era, rich people were mummifying their cats, and there was a bustling market of usury to get the poorer classes to go into debt mummifying their pets as well. Pits full of ankh amulets have been found, which appear to have been product that either couldn't sell, or discarded as people were abandoning the fading empire in its final stages.

The Church would do well to revisit the works of their own Teilhard de Chardin...

All hail the arising Noosphere!

[MineralMan]

7. Here, let me consult the entrails of a chicken...

They say that priest is nucking futs.

If you believe in one magical thing, I guess, you're prone to believing in just about anything at all.

Demons? Magic? Harry Potter is a work of fiction.