Wol

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-Vatican.html

kporte

They need to look at the details.....

Hutch

Yea, that story tickled me too. I was thinking, "Yea, you call him the pope don't you?"

iolande

I can't believe it took them 2000 years to find him . . . and he was right under their noses all along




btw 70,000 exorcisms? If he did one a day it would take him over 190 years to get them done.

Thydney

They dont all involve spinning heads and pea soup some are simple blessings

S E A N

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Sometimes I really believe people are 'possessed' in a sense...

Like those three Ukrainian youths in 2007 that killed I think it was 21 people and filmed it. They used hammers and screw drivers to kill people to make snuff films to put on the Internet.

There is one that made it to the Internet and is watched by obviously very disturbed people.


There really are some 'possessed' people

kporte

Or the guy in Germany that wanted to kill and eat someone, as well as the fruit loops that applied to his advert!! WTF?

MartinLuther

So, why did God create the Devil?

CEM

I did have to check it wasn't April 1st!

I might suggest Memoirs of an Exorcist for the next read at book club........ or maybe not.......

Kapri

For a minute there I thought the tardis had transported me back to the middle ages

performing exorcisms on the mentally ill just beggars belief

And paedophile priests are nothing to do with the devil - the church needs to take responsibility

iolande

I don't think he should be able to count Exorcism Lites. That's just cheating.

TiddlyPom

He didn't... The devil or Lucifer, was an angel of incredible beauty... the bible tells of him dripping with precious stones and his light (hence Lucifer - though some scholars think the name 'Lucifer' was refering to someone else entirely) was blinding. He was given certain powers by God. Lucifer decided he was unhappy with the power balance and did the dirty on God. God threw him out of heaven along with one third of the angels who were with him... huge row, big fight... bit like message forums.

Interestingly, in mainstream Judaism, there is no devil per se, and he only appears in mainstream Christianity or Islam. Some people see the Devil as a real entity, others see him as a representation of human sin/temptation etc.

DunRoaminTheUK

Does George Bush have a holiday home in the Vatican City then?

S E A N

There's religions undoing, it's all perception. Most of them all think I'm going to he'll of course for something I can't change, I've also been accused of being touched by the devil.

spalen

sweet zombie jeesus.

The problem is in the opening paragraph - the guy is 85 years old and still working. For crying out loud. Bloody vatican bunch of old codgers who should be in jail.

( I was raised catholic, Im allowed to say this stuff, I confess and it goes away)