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WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT EXORCISM

Added on: 18th Nov 2016

 

IN ADDITION TO THESE VATICAN-SANCTIONED

EXORCISTS, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF SELF-

STYLED EXORCISTS AROUND THE WORLD

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IN 2005 A YOUNG NUN IN ROMANIA DIED AT THE

HANDS OF A PRIEST DURING AN EXORCISM AFTER

BEING BOUND TO A CROSS, GAGGED, AND LEFT

FOR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER IN AN

EFFORT TO EXPEL DEMONS

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DEMONIC POSSESSION IS NOT A VALID

PSYCHIATRIC OR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND IS NOT

RECOGNIZED BY EITHER THE DIAGNOSTIC AND

STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS

OR THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL

CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND RELATED

HEALTH PROBLEMS

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PSYCHIATRY’S OFFICIAL VIEW ON “DEMONIC POSSESSION”

IS THAT THE SYMPTOMS ATTRIBUTED TO THE

POSSESSED (THE PATIENT) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH

PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESSES SUCH AS HYSTERIA,

MANIA, PSYCHOSIS, TOURETTE’S SYNDROME, EPILEPSY,

SCHIZOPHRENIA, DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER, OR

EVEN RARE CASES OF AUTISM

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SPEAKING OF AUTISM, IN 2003 AN AUTISTIC

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN,

WAS KILLED DURING AN EXORCISM BY CHURCH

MEMBERS WHO BLAMED AN INVADING DEMON

FOR HIS DISABILITY

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ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF

CATHOLIC BISHOPS, SIGNS OF DEMONIC

POSSESSION INCLUDE SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH,

AVERSION TO HOLY WATER AND THE ABILITY TO

SPEAK IN UNKNOWN LANGUAGES. OTHER

POTENTIAL SIGNS OF DEMONIC POSSESSION

INCLUDE SPITTING, CURSING AND “EXCESSIVE

MASTURBATION.”

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

 

 

WHAT MOST RELIGIOUS CIRCLES PROBABLY IGNORE

IS THAT THERE’S A FORM OF MANIA CALLED

DEMON MANIA OR DEMONOPATHY IN WHICH THE

PATIENT BELIEVES HE OR SHE IS POSSESSED

BY ONE OR MORE DEMONS. THE ILLUSION THAT

EXORCISM WORKS ON PEOPLE EXPERIENCING

SYMPTOMS OF POSSESSION IS ATTRIBUTED BY

SOME TO THE PLACEBO EFFECT AND THE POWER

OF SUGGESTION. SOME CASES SUGGEST THAT

SUPPOSEDLY POSSESSED PERSONS ARE ACTUALLY

NARCISSISTS OR ARE SUFFERING FROM LOW

SELF-ESTEEM AND ACT DEMONICALLY POSSESSED

TO GAIN ATTENTION

demonomania

 

 

IN 1975, THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL TAYLOR WAS

EXORCIZED AT ST. THOMAS CHURCH, IN BARNSLEY,

ENGLAND, BUT WENT HOME “POSSESSED WITH THE

DEVIL” AND BRUTALLY MURDERED HIS WIFE.

HE WAS FOUND GUILTY BUT INSANE

In 1975, thirty-one-year-old Michael Taylor was exorcized at St. Thomas  Church, in Barnsley, England, but went home “possessed with the devil” and brutally murdered his wife. He was found guilty but insane.

 


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