Do demons exist?

[Bobby]

It looks like demons really exist.
Vatican exorcist reveals his most haunting experiences.

A priest in the U.S. is one of the world's few Vatican-trained exorcists.
Here he speaks about some of his most haunting experiences,
and why he believes exorcisms are on the rise today.

[sprintcyclist]

I believe so, yes.

[Bobby]

I believe so, yes.

I have heard rumors about demons.
They are around us all the time but we are immune from them
unless we drink large amounts of alcohol
or we take drugs such as :pot, meth, ice, LSD or heroin.
It's then that the demons may possess us.
Sometimes only an exorcism can get rid of them.

[Bobby]

https://www.inverse.com/article/25798-k ... -excorcism


Synthetic marijuana, known also as K2 or Spice, is a literal poison that causes ill effects like dysphoria and psychosis. It’s an incredibly dangerous drug that, according to the CDC, is rising in popularity in the United States. It is also, according to some religious leaders, a gateway that allows demons to enter the body.

While the Vatican’s guide to exorcism, the De Exorcismis et supplicationibus quibusdam,
emphasizes to ordained exorcists that they should not confuse mental illness with demon possession,
the Catholic church does consider drugs a force that
allows Satan to more easily take over the body.

“We’re in a fight with drugs, the occult, pornography,” Father Vincent Lampert, head priest at St. Malachy’s in Indianapolis, told The New York Post on Wednesday. “This is an entry point for evil and we need to take these souls back.”

Marcos Quinones, a chaplain based in New York, also told the New York Post that he specifically considers K-2 a “form of the occult” and that the drug has been cursed to allow for demonic possession. While he acknowledges that drugs can medically exacerbate mental illness, he still considers K2 to be an instrument of the devil.

[Bobby]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... ne-8030769




People who appear to be demonically possessed may be mentally ill - and a priest who performs exorcisms has issued his guidelines on how to tell the difference.

The deviations between those under the influence of an otherworldly being and someone with mental health issues has been laid out by Father Cipriano de Meo.

Father de Meo, an exorcist of 64 years' standing from Foggia, Apulia, south-eastern Italy, says prayer is the key to establishing what ails a presented person.

The exorcist will typically say a “prolonged prayer to the point where if the adversary [demon] is present, there's a reaction,” he told the Catholic News Agency .

The unsettling reactions of a possessed person to the prayer, seen by the adversary as an enemy ready to fight him, can include "facial expressions, threatening words or gestures and other things - but especially blasphemies against God and Our Lady.”

[sprintcyclist]

I believe so, yes.

I have heard rumors about demons.
They are around us all the time but we are immune from them
unless we drink large amounts of alcohol
or we take drugs such as :pot, meth, ice, LSD or heroin.
It's then that the demons may possess us.
Sometimes only an exorcism can get rid of them.

If you are a Christian, you know Jesus.

[Super Nova]

No.

Bad people do exist tho.

[Bobby]

No.

Bad people do exist tho.

What is this?

[Black Orchid]

No.

Bad people do exist tho.

What is this?

A nutcase. There's plenty out there.

[Bobby]

No.

Bad people do exist tho.

What is this?

A nutcase. There's plenty out there.

But he looks and sounds demonic.