Do you know how to avoid the demonic?

[Michie]

We are living in a challenging generation in terms of our belief in and understanding of the spiritual. Many Christian ideas that used to inform our families, communities and laws have faded. What used to be seen as dangerous or even evil is now normalized and often celebrated.

Most have heard of the Pew Research studythat found that about a third of Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Starting in the 1970s, just about all seminaries taught that possession is a psychiatric problem, and many taught that the devil is not a person but an idea. Western culture significantly dabbled in the occult in the form of the spiritualist movement from the late 1800s through the post-World War II era. We have been in a revival of this in the form of paranormal investigating, brought about this time by myriad television shows on the topic. Witchcraft (“Wicca”) is now an official religion in the United States, and Satanism has pushed for recognition and an open presence in the culture. The struggle to protect and honor life has ceded ground in many places as a secular view of life became more the norm.

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https://www.osvnews.com/2021/10/22/do-you-know-how-to-avoid-the-demonic/

 

[Andrei D]

We were talking about that yesterday (reading was Luke 8:26-39). Basically, as a society, we are the Gerasenes.

 

[ripple the car]

We have rejected possession as a possibility in favor of chemical imbalances, yet the media is saturated with the Satanic, supernatural, and occult. So stupid…