Possession movies

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It seems our culture/hollywood has a fascination with movies about demon possession. In many of these movies they give too much credit to the devil and his angels for their ability to possess faithful Christians/priests/exorcists themselves. I recently watched one of these movies about exorcism, and my friends talked about how scary it was but it didn’t have that kind of an effect on me. However the effect it did have on me was, number one, reminded me of the devil’s influence in this world (not necessarily just in the rare cases of demon possession, but in the oversexualization of our culture, abortion, hedonism, fornication, divorce, secularism, all of which come from the devil) and how we as Christians are called to oppose him, and secondly, it reminded me of how powerful Christ is over the devil, and how great it is to have Christ as our ally. Always when you hear about these exorcisms you hear about how the demons cower at the name of Jesus. How much more powerful can the name of Jesus be in our every day lives. The powers of darkness are no match for the Savior of our race. If only we would proclaim him without fear.
 
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. I heard that in a movie.
 
Rejoice_Always said:
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. I heard that in a movie.
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I heard that 88% of all statistics are made up.

However…

“Afraid of that beast? He’s the one who should be afraid of me because I work in the name of the Lord of the world. He is only an ape of God.” - Vatican’s chief excorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth
 
I’d rather have movies about them, however fanciful, then not, as far as the secular population is concerned especially. As long as they watch these movies, then at least they have some sort of remote empathy for those of us who do believe spirits – good and evil – are real and capable of at least some sort of mischief upon a victim who may have even consented without realizing it.

So yeah, I think it’s good that there are people who like to watch these kinds of movies, whether religious or not. It keeps us active in our collective imaginations. For that matter, what if a doubter comes upon real demon possession and first recognized it because of something he saw in a movie? I recently watched “Stigmata” with some people on another board, and loved it. I don’t care if it’s authentic; it raises a lot of questions. I look for questions, more than answers, or just pure entertainment, from such movies. I don’t expect them to be accurate, but I usually prefer it if it is. Same reason I used to watch Star Trek NG. It raises a lot of “what if” scenarios to help stretch our imaginations, or hopefully so.

Alan
 
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