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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 06 2018, @04:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-power-of-god-compels-you-to-read-it dept.

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/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @09:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @09:30PM (#770866)

    "Has any of this been presented in a peer-reviewed journal?"

    These "peer-reviewed" "journals" are infiltrated by khazar jewish vermin, therefore will not let anyone expose them. This is why they control media and continue to buy/threaten/infiltrate independent media. The rat-faced jewish vermin cannot let themselves be exposed. The jewish vermin will not play fair.

    "I bet someone could make a lot of easy money that way!"

    That form of communication/control of other beings is used to commit great evil. Money is too small a thing. When you can control the minds of people, you do not need money.

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