Exorcist

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Wed Sep 20 19:17:03 PDT 2000


On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> ... Is this any more unbelievable than the idea that devils sometimes
> take up residence in human bodies and can be exorcised by priests who
> incant the proper formulas? Or is the Jesus story true and the
> possession/exorcism story superstition? I ask this as someone who is
> not immune to the beauties of Catholic ritual and icongraphy. Doug

It's a question I suppose of whom/what one chooses to trust, just as (sometimes) we choose people to trust. --C. G. Estabrook



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