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Michael16
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I’m sorry, Gift. I have left that behind me and confessed those sins. Of course, as a good and faithful Catholic; I seek out and defer to the authority of the Clergy.
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xihha
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The thing is that there are mental health issues which look a lot like a person could be possessed, which is why priests insist on psychiatric assessments before exorcism.
Theoretically someone who is not a priest performing an exorcism might help that person if they believe in it enough, same way I slept with a particular toy as a child because I believed it ate nightmares, the problem was in my head and I believed that was the cure so it worked. Obviously my toy was just a toy and couldn’t eat nightmares, it just made me feel better. So people like this will always have “evidence” it has worked because in some cases, where there wasn’t really a demon, it will have had a placebo effect.
Theoretically someone who is not a priest performing an exorcism might help that person if they believe in it enough, same way I slept with a particular toy as a child because I believed it ate nightmares, the problem was in my head and I believed that was the cure so it worked. Obviously my toy was just a toy and couldn’t eat nightmares, it just made me feel better. So people like this will always have “evidence” it has worked because in some cases, where there wasn’t really a demon, it will have had a placebo effect.
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Loud-living-dogma
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Another debunking of the Gary Ammons exorcism “200 demons house” story:
The Indiana "hell house" is off limits to proper investigation but media producers welcome
In January of 2014, the world heard a harrowing story about a woman and her family experiencing demonic possession and paranormal activity in their Gary, Indiana rental house. What made this story so...
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