MetaFilter posts tagged with exorcism

Yes, I Do Feel Something Rising

yerfatma — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:50:01 -0800

American to be Saved By hot teen exorcists, according to former news program Nightline.

The Truth about Demons from Demons

ServSci — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:32:54 -0800

The source Fr. Amoth refers to, according to Fr. Fortea, is the demons who are being exorcised. Of this, the Spanish priest wrote that knowing whether or not the demon is telling the truth "is in many cases impossible." "We can know with great confidence when a demon tells the truth in the subject directly related with the exorcism. That is, the number of demons, their name and similar things. But we cannot be confident in what regards concrete news relating to people." Excerpt of Fr. Amoth's Book "Power of Satan" INDE AB ALIQUOT ANNIS - On The Current Norms Governing Exorcisms - Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith a bit of exorcist history

Jewish Exorcisms

ServSci — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:27:33 -0800

“We got a bit excited because we realized that people have collected lots of dybbuk stories, but our fragment describes a real event, where you see how they come together and pray in order to exorcise the ghost from a widow,”

"If a person practices "occult rites" and the content thereof is a mumble of strange words, bizarre costumes, or strange rites, it is either bogus or evil. It usually is bogus, but in those cases that he has tapped into these powers, it is evil for he has divorced it from God. The great rabbis who performed supernatural acts, were using them to bring home a message about God. They enjoined people to recognize the Creator, develop their character, be kind to others, be honest and faithful, reign in their drives, etc. Understood in the larger context of God, Torah and morality, these unusual miracles were indeed Divine revelations." - Witchcraft* & Judaism

*= 'witchcraft' in the sense of the Witch of Endor speaking with the dead. not a reference to European witches or modern Neopagans.

is this fundamentalism?

cbjg — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:57:42 -0800

Nun crucified at Romanian exorcism. A Romanian nun has died after being bound to a cross, gagged and left alone for three days in a cold room in a convent, Romanian police have said. "I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this. Exorcism is a common practice in the heart of the Romanian Orthodox church and my methods are not at all unknown to other priests," Father Daniel added.

UPDATE: She was buried yesterday and the Principal monk has been charged with false imprisonment leading to death.

Paging Father Merrin

billsaysthis — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:11:36 -0800

Help Wanted: Exorcist Although I would prefer more Monarch Butterflies, their utility is more visible to me, but perhaps we're just seeing an evolution of the god gene. David Brooks, apparently moving away from his neocon pals, has posted a different help wanted ad while some triumphant right wing Evangelicals are planning a different kind of recruiting .

Religion

semmi — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:09:09 -0800

The Vatican's university in Rome is starting a seminar on satanism and exorcism. "The seminar will conclude with the testimony of two exorcists who will explain how to distinguish between someone who is ill and requiring medical care, and one is 'possessed by demons.'"

aaron — Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:00:38 -0800

The pope must be getting old; when it comes to exorcisms, Satan is beating him these days.