Exorcist

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
>
> > ... However, demonic possession is over the top. That's just too
> > silly. I don't understand how any sensible person could take that
> > seriously.
>
>Without believing in an invisible Miltonian world, one can still regard
>thoughts about the demonic as an attempt to deal with an uncomfortable
>fact: there's more wrong with the world than private malice accounts for.
>(If that weren't so, we could simply identify the malicious people and
>shoot them.  But that's been tried without notable success.)
>
>C. G. Estabrook

To the contrary, it seems to me that the idea of demonic possession 
privatizes wrongs of the world into individual souls (hence subject 
to exorcism).

Yoshie