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HAB911

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Tue Nov 1, 2016, 08:24 AM Nov 2016

OMG! The Media is ‘Driving Demonic Activity’

Leave it to the WorldNUTdaily to publish an article claiming that the media is “driving demonic activity.” It even quotes an “expert” on demonic activity, which is a lot like an expert on unicorn farts, a guy who has “been engaged in the spiritual fight against demons for many years.”

Huge spikes in reported demonic activity all over the world. Black masses and blasphemous rituals held in cities around the country. The rise of Satanism as devil worshipers openly organize in what was once a Christian country.

Suddenly, Halloween doesn’t seem so innocent anymore.

Karl Payne, the former chaplain of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and a pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington, has been engaged in the spiritual fight against demons for many years…

“I believe there is a correlation between the media’s incessant and increasing promotion of these kinds of subjects and an increased workload for those of us who actually work with real demonization and deliverance,” the pastor told WND. “Why should that come as a surprise? The same media industry that restricts the promotion of tobacco products because of the destructive and addictive effects promoted by advertisements on naïve, gullible young minds chooses to bombard those same naïve, gullible young minds with other harmful imagery. Audio and visual presentations of demonic, occultic and Satanic inspired death, destruction, slashing, bashing, blood, gore, murder, rape, terror and mayhem on a nightly basis. And yet they defiantly declare it represents nothing more than harmless entertainment.

“They act like it is a video game, if you don’t like what you see or the score you get, you can just hit reset and try again. But the reality is that demonization is real, and there is not an easy reset button to push once a person is caught in the middle of demonic conflict and desperately wanting out.”

Hmmm. Preying on “naïve, gullible young minds” by bombarding them with images of demons and destruction? You mean like those “hell houses” that so many churches put up as alternatives to Halloween? Or the incessant fire and brimstone preaching telling “naive, gullible minds” about all the precise ways they’ll be tormented in a lake of fire by demons? I seem to recall something about logs and splinters in one’s eye.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/11/01/omg-the-media-is-driving-demonic-activity/

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