Demons be gone: meeting America’s new exorcists

[onthedarkside]

 

Deliverance from demons is a booming practice among evangelical Christians, promising freedom from afflictions ranging from addiction to cancer. Elle Hardy reports from a session in Arizona.

 

Amped-up Pentecostalism is a global affair, drawing significant teachings from places such as Brazil and Nigeria, where populations have a far more spiritual conception of the world and where good and evil are understood as operating in everyday lives.

 

This view is gaining traction in the US, where the changing social and political landscape has led many evangelicals to feel increasingly besieged by the growing secular, liberal world around them.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/spiritual-warfare-deliverance-demons-exorcism

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

...the changing social and political landscape in the U.S. has led many atheists, agnostics and other democracy-focused free-thinkers to feel increasingly besieged by the growing theocratic, illiberal country around them.

 

Edited April 30, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[ozimoron]

Shoot. I just finished convincing my girlfriend that there's no ghosts in farang countries because they can't swim and now this.

[Tug]

Well old keven macarthy sure could use a good one to help out with some of his members mtg,gosar,Jordan,just to name a few lol ???? glad I’ve always taken the religious types with a grain of salt since my youth

[klauskunkel]

14 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

promising freedom from afflictions ranging from addiction to cancer

for a fee

[Tug]

1 minute ago, klauskunkel said:

for a fee

Yup another grift

[bendejo]

Sounds like a good business plan: people paying you to get rid of something that doesn't exist. 

 

 

[BusyB]

'' ... from places such as Brazil and Nigeria, where populations have a far more spiritual conception of the world and where good and evil are understood as operating in everyday lives ...''

 

from places such as Brazil and Nigeria, where populations are far more superstitious because generally less well educated and therefore also more gullible and desperate for 'solutions' to life's problems they see as overwhelming. Just like US evangelicals.

 

There. Fixed that.