Posts Tagged ‘exorcism’

The Devil Made Me Do It!

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I’ve already mentioned the Papal lunacy heating up over exorcisms, but it would appear that Poland is bracing for a demonic invasion, due to the rantings of several professional village idiots.

They even had a convention of village idiots last July, with more than 300 exorcists gathering in Czestochowa, under the fourth International Congress of Exorcists.

Of course there are various recipes for demonic infestation, everything from New Age religions to Internet addiction, or so says Rev. Wieslaw Jankowski, with the Institute for Studies on the Family. One of the worst cases, according to Jankowski, was a woman who asked for a divorce just days after renewing her wedding vows during a marriage counseling session. Oh, the horrors! Only Satan could be responsible for this!

“According to what I could perceive, the devil was present and acting in an obvious way,” he said. “How else can you explain how a wife, in the space of a couple of weeks, could come to hate her own husband, a man who is a good person?”

Maybe because her husband is a worthless prick to her? After all, they were obviously having problems if they were in marriage counseling. Just because someone is forced into renewing their marriage vows for a marriage counseling session, doesn’t mean that there was feeling behind it, nor that there weren’t second thoughts going through her head. If this kind of thing is all these charlatan snake-oil peddlers have to support their loony ideas, then may their god help us all.

Apparently they are “still working” on this poor lass.

Exorcists claim to be careful not to treat those suffering from mental illness, but I think the unfortunate irony of the situation is that no one is being careful to keep those suffering from mental illness from “treating” innocent people.

Papal Possessed Pomposity

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Hide the epileptics and those with Tourette Syndrome, Pope Benedict XVI is on the rampage against Satanism!

According to this Raw Story, Father Gabriele Amorth, senior exorcist of the diocese of Rome, says that Pope is taking the problem of demonic possession very seriously, “setting up exorcism squads to deal with the rampant growth of Satanism.”

Though I haven’t seen any of these modern day witch hunters running around with vials of Holy Water, throwing Eucharist wafers to and fro like a demented Johnny Appleseed to keep the demons at bay, it’s probably just because I avoid wild packs of wandering lunatics as a habit. (I avoided the primary’s yesterday for the same reason.)

Apparently Pope Benedict XVI believes in evil, but cannot believe in evil unless Satan is behind it all. From my perspective, humans are pretty damn good at evil without any pitchfork wielding bogeyman behind the curtains. Perhaps this is how His Holiness is able to reconcile what he was caught up in during WWII with the Hitler Youth? To be fair, he never was a Nazi, but his claims that joining the Hitler Youth was compulsory in 1941 doesn’t match up with the history books. Membership in the Deutsche Jungvolk was compulsory, but he avoid that. Why join the Hitler Youth then? Also, though he deserted the German Army, he didn’t do so until April 1945, when the war was almost over. This guy was the best candidate they had?

In any case, if you’re Catholic and develop a neurological disorder, be prepared to be guided away from professional medical attention at the lieu of medieval ju-ju.

Of course, if you’re Catholic, why the hell are you reading my blog?