Here There Be Demons...

[Bookwyrm]

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*wanders through*

Well, first I would question him to where he gathered his knowledge of demons. He might lie and say he learned it from the bible, you can say "there is no passage in the bible that talks about demon or satanic possession".

You mean except for this bit:

Luke as translated by the authors of the NIV Bible says:

26They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is across the lake from Galilee. 27When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs. 28When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torture me!" 29For Jesus had commanded the evil spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.
30Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
31"Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him. And they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
32A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into them, and he gave them permission. 33When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

Though this passage isn't particularly helpful for the fundy mentioned in the OP as it doesn't give any criteria to use to distinguish possession from strange/insane behavior with a purely natural cause.

*goes back to lurking*

 

[triadboy]

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[BThough this passage isn't particularly helpful for the fundy mentioned in the OP as it doesn't give any criteria to use to distinguish possession from strange/insane behavior with a purely natural cause.[/B]

I've read the occupying forces in Jerusalem after the destruction was a Roman Legion whose guidon bore a pig. Perhaps this is a secret message to people about the hoped-for fate of these forces.

 

[imekon]

No demons here

It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to discuss my exorcism with a medical counsellor. My christian friends had warned me that a secular doctor wouldn't understand and that my faith would be shattered.

My faith was shattered long before I did talk to a counsellor, so it didn't matter much to me. Imagine my surprise when it turns out that what happened to me was very easily explained, and that these people who told me I was possessed were so wrong and had no right to mess up my life.

 

[Flaherty]

It's kind of "fun" (even though it is infuriating sometimes)!

Putting the fun back in fundamentalism!