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The conviction that demons exist—and that they exist to harass, derange, and smite human beings—stretches back as far as religion itself. In ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonian priests performed exorcisms by casting wax figurines of demons into a fire. The Hindu Vedas, thought to have been written between 1500 and 500 b.c., refer to supernatural beings—known as asuras, but largely understood today as demons—that challenge the gods and sabotage human affairs. For the ancient Greeks, too, demonlike creatures lurked on the shadowy fringes of the human world.
But far from being confined to a past of Demiurges and evil eyes, belief in demonic possession is widespread in the United States today. Polls conducted in recent decades by Gallup and the data firm YouGov suggest that roughly half of Americans believe demonic possession is real. The percentage who believe in the devil is even higher, and in fact has been growing: Gallup polls show that the number rose from 55 percent in 1990 to 70 percent in 2007.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @05:25AM (2 children)
Part of the issue is that lots of those "pillars of civilization" got weaponized by degenerates. Education and journalism are completely dominated by leftist thinking, and even science has been badly undermined. We can see the mockery of justice that is the 9th Circuit, civil asset forfeiture is still a thing, and overcharging is used to force people into plea bargains. Fraud runs rampant in the climate-change industry, with multiple cases of fabricated data, and the "solution" proposed is a worldwide planned economy (brutal bloody communism AGAIN) that doesn't consider the cost of implementation.
People take justice into their own hand when government fails them. When cops ignore crimes and when judges give trivial sentences, people quickly learn that revenge is the better option.
We've been importing violence, bigotry, homophobia, racism, sexism, and slavery. Since 9/11, muslims in the USA have gone from 1 million to 6 million. If we keep up that rate of growth (36 million, 216 million, 1296 million...) it won't be long before official government policy is to chuck LGBT from rooftops. We will have sex slave markets. It's coming as long as we insist on pacifist "we're better than that" non-response to the invasion.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:49AM
Totally useless, of course.
You have plenty of those at home and the price of them is not high enough to justify the importation.
(grin)
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 06 2018, @03:56PM
Like, Ellen Degenerate?
And, Chuck? Muslims named Chuck on the rooftop are bad for LICKBUTTS?