See? Witches are real! They can even cause an aneurysm!
Isn’t believing in witches like believing in Baptists? You don’t have to believe in them; you can meet them.
That’s not the kind of witches they’re talking about.
Somehow, you’ve missed the point. From a Christian perspective, the problem isn’t that he believes in demons, but that he believes they can overpower the presence of Christ. It’s not making the point that he’s crazy; it’s making the point that he doesn’t trust the God in which he allegedly believes. (And I would say that, in general, a failure to look at something from a point of view other than one’s own leads to misunderstandings like this.)
I heard something else odd about this guy recently. No, not how he got his first name. I have to go look it up.
Perhaps the luxury afforded by being a couple thousand miles away from this nutjob encourages a certain flippancy on my part, but I’m kind of tickled by the thought that there could someday be a VP candidate whose theme song could conceivably be “The Jezebel Spirit”* by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
- From the terrific album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [1981, but re-released in 2006 with new edits and extra tracks, and I haven’t heard that version], “TJS” is a song about an exorcism, with what sounds like a “found” recording of an actual freakin’ exorcism, perpetrated by one evil-sounding male cleric on what sounds like a truly terrified, powerless young woman whose problem is that she hears voices. (She needs a psychiatrist, not an exorcism.) Not only does this cynical bastard actually cackle, he’s pushing his patriarchal, sexist agenda on the woman, getting her to agree that women should obey their husbands, etc. It’s simply incensing… and it’s a helluva track!
Not following this. It’s not supported by the quotes in the OP. Are you suggesting that up to and including Jesus’ time, demonic possession was possible, but not since his resurrection? That’s no church’s doctrine AFAIK.
In Jindals’s account, he basically said he stopped praying because he thought the demon would attack him if he did. Aside from the absurdity of his belief that he was literally battling demons, it also belies a certain lapse of faith in that he thought the demon could overpower Christ. Even accepting a belief in demonic possession, he’s admitting that he wussed out and lost faith in God at the crucial moment.
I, for one, think the point is that he’s crazy.
Like anu-la, though I’m still on the fence as to whether he’s genuinely crazy or just putting on the crazy to increase his electability…
Good call, Dio.
Lily Tomlin: "Why is it, when we talk to God, we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?’
In my book that’s a good thing. 
OK, but that’s not believing (as Liberal said) that demons are stronger than Christ, it’s just having a moment of doubt that God will answer your prayer at this particular moment. And it would be blasphemous, I’m sure, to believe God will always answer your prayer, which would make you God for all intents and purposes – prayers should always be made in the spirit of, “but Thy will, not mine, be done”. Am I missing something?
But Jindal said he was afraid to pray at all. He backed off because he said he was afraid the demon would attack if he prayed. Giving the demon that kind of deference is a complete abdication of faith. Not believing any of it is one thing – believing the demon is real but that God either won’t or can’t protect you is blasphemous.
How would we know, though?
Because they believe in fucking angels.
Kinda like the men of Sodom and Gomorrah?