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People have the ability to believe anything once they let go of their
God-given reason. They can even believe in devils and demons and
that a clergyman can force the evil spirits out of a person. (AP Photo/
Amy Guttierrez)
Catholic priest Jesus Aguilar claims he exorcises demons and evil spirits from possessed people.
The Catholic Church, like all "revealed" religions, uses fear to control their members. Father Aguilar reinforces this fear by saying, "“If a person dies in this situation" (possessed with an evil spirit or demon), "they could lose their chances of salvation.” To a devout Catholic, or to any Christian/revealed religionist, there couldn't be any other words packed with more fear than these. After all, a revealed religionist believes if they lose their salvation they will burn for eternity in hell.
People who believe they have a family member or loved one who is possessed bring them to Aguilar or one of the other six priests in the Mexico City area who are approved by the Vatican to pretend to chase the devils out of the possessed. According to the article, priests use prayer and holy water to "invoke God." Based on this, it seems without prayer and holy water, God will not help.
It appears the exorcisms operate in a similar fashion as Christian revival meetings. They start out slow and then emotion builds and the exorcisms happen. With revivals, they start slow and after the emotion builds people get "saved" instead of exorcised. The article says, "An exorcism starts off with prayer and reflection, then one by one, people are strapped and the transformation begins." Thomas Paine wrote a short and very interesting article about the power of the imagination at Christian revival meetings and in tests in France of claims of animal magnetism. The same thing appears to be at work in exocrcisms.
The idea of people believing in such things as devils and Satan and demons and evil spirits shows how much more progress needs to be made and how much more value needs to be put on our God-given reason. Like belief in healing through prayer which causes the unnecessary deaths of innocent children, exorcisms often cause the deaths of innocent people. Plus, it's important to remember that not all exorcisms are based on Christian superstitions. Some, for example, are based on Buddhist superstitions or other ancient myths.
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