{"content":[{"text":"prophet who forecasts things that will happen in a billion years time for he can't get caught out.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":-0.00023,"width":0.7664920000000001,"height":0.015784}},{"text":"The Church says that if you don’t believe in people who testified to miracle exorcisms you can’t believe in any human \n testimony so if you reject the testimony of exorcism miracles you are committing a great sin and are opposing the message \n of God. Clearly it cannot be wicked to disbelieve for any other reason. But the condemnation is too harsh. The Church \n itself rejects most miracle testimonies or just pays no heed to them which amounts to rejection. Seeing exorcism as a \n miracle and a reality encourages hatred and harshness.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.03184,"width":0.988821,"height":0.079923}},{"text":"Many children have been beaten to death by Christians trying to hammer the Devil and his cronies out of them. This makes \n sense if demons possess because the demon will be hurt by attacks on the body for the demon takes over most of the brain \n faculties. The doctrine of exorcism is the cause of these deaths. It is an inexcusable evil.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.128049,"width":0.992819,"height":0.04785300000000001}},{"text":"It is better for exorcism not to be believed in at all than for it to result in the loss of life. This is not condemning a doctrine \n just because it is abused. It is saying a belief should not be held if it does things like that when the belief could be lived \n without.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.192188,"width":0.9827899999999999,"height":0.04785300000000001}},{"text":"The doctrine of exorcism is accepted by the Church and part of it irrevocable teaching and part of being a Catholic. Reject \n it for it is merely a door to fanaticism and insanity and leave the Church. Walk or you share in the evil deeds albeit \n indirectly of the Church.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.256327,"width":0.984249,"height":0.04785299999999998}},{"text":"The exorcism rite while acknowledging that the demon in a person might not be Satan but some other evil spirit, still has \n the following prayer.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.320466,"width":0.973221,"height":0.03181900000000004}},{"text":"\"I adjure you, ancient serpent, by the judge of the living and the dead, by your Creator, by the Creator of the whole \n universe, by Him who has the power to consign you to hell, to depart forthwith in fear, along with your savage minions, \n from this servant of God, N., who seeks refuge in the fold of the Church. I adjure you again, + (on the brow) not by my \n weakness but by the might of the Holy Spirit, to depart from this servant of God, N. , whom almighty God has made in His \n image.\" This tells the person that it is the fearsome Satan himself who is possessing her or him along with another demon \n or so. No psychiatrist who believes in demon possession - and you could count those on one hand - agrees with suggesting \n to a person that Satan the worst of the devils is in them. No unbelieving psychiatrist believes in doing that either. It very \n serious to suggest such a distressing thing to a patient. Those who believe the Catholic Church is Satan's camouflaged bride \n could argue that the exorcism only addresses stupid demons who possess people and puts the wily and charming Satan in \n their place! They would see the prayer as putting Satan in.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.36857,"width":0.995426,"height":0.160097}},{"text":"Fr Gabriel Amorth has been caught out lying that Pope Francis exorcised a Mexican man. He boasts he exorcised 160,000 \n demons. The man is an obvious charlatan. What would he have to say to those experts on exorcism who assert that only \n demons who believe in Roman Catholicism can be annoyed by Catholic prayers and holy water? Demons that are not \n Catholic laugh at the antics.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.544953,"width":0.982632,"height":0.06388799999999994}},{"text":"You would need to actually be the possessed person to have the best chance of knowing if you are possessed. What right \n has the Church to be so sure that you are and then to put you through the fearful and painful experience of exorcism? You \n need evidence and proof - the victim is entitled to be treated as a result of evidence and proof. The bigger the claim the \n more evidence you need to justify the claim. For example, you need huge evidence to justify your assertion that aliens took \n you for a trip on a spaceship. You would not need as good of evidence if you say you went on a bus trip.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.625127,"width":0.992167,"height":0.07992300000000008}},{"text":"Some think that exorcism might help through the placebo effect. But that means that it is what the allegedly possessed \n thinks of exorcism that helps not the exorcism. Plus the placebo takes too long to work. No exorcism is instant. So what is \n happening until it starts to work? A no-cebo? The placebo is immoral for it is based on convincing the person that their \n delusion of being possessed is real and the person is left open to fearing attacks by \"demons\" in the future. It is the priest \n having too much control over your programming. It would be too manipulative to be tolerated. The placebo effect involves \n somebody wittingly or unwittingly manipulating you. It should be used by medics as a last resort. It will go wrong if the \n person starts to realise he was fooled by a placebo. To use a placebo to make a person who is seriously mentally ill or \n physically ill think they are getting better is simply evil. It is tolerable in matters that are not too serious. If you can induce \n the symptoms of demonic possession in yourself and reverse them by thinking you got rid of the demon, is that really a \n good thing? Your placebo power is dangerous for it could induce an even worse \"possession\". The placebo makes you too \n powerful.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.721335,"width":0.998977,"height":0.17613200000000007}},{"text":"The Catholic church priesthood is a con for it gives treatment for our evil inclinations that does not work. That is worse \n than any pretended healer. The long term damage is terrible. The fruit is war and lies. They are the malefactors not the evil \n forces and demons they allegedly disperse with their rites and prayers.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.913753,"width":0.985849,"height":0.047853000000000034}},{"text":"The Church warns that exorcism can be dangerous for the exorcist.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.97611,"width":0.53965,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"Catholic priests are not exorcists at all in the eyes of","bbox":{"left":0.549718,"top":0.97611,"width":0.42057999999999995,"height":0.01578400000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}