# Candles are demonic...yes, that's right: CANDLES **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068 "2004-01-01T04:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/121 "2004-01-04T20:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IWLN \* > \*\*I wonder if they’re in my _BAN_ too. :eek: I’m thinking that walking around smelling like vinegar will keep a lot of things away. \*\* Wear a garlic necklace too…can’t be too careful. Then you are protected against vampires and demons! And any human or animal who has olfactory senses. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/122 "2004-01-04T20:36:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IWLN \* > \*\*I wonder if they’re in my _BAN_ too. :eek: I’m thinking that walking around smelling like vinegar will keep a lot of things away. \*\* Not so! I like the smell pof freshly made Easter Eggs ---
**Author:** ![carimwc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@carimwc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carimwc)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/123 "2004-01-04T22:09:29Z")
Has anyone thought of our poor ancestors who just must be burning in hell? Since most of them probably used candles, hell I bet they even MADE them. They were all demons I bet. ALL of them. They couldn’t use flashlights and electricity since well, they weren’t always around to use. I don’t think they always had lamps and oil either. Damn demon predecessors. They should hae just stayed in the dark. _Is so going to hell with the speeding, candles, chinese food that I’m having for dinner tonight, and use of Microsoft_ ---
**Author:** ![CartoonSuperHero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@CartoonSuperHero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CartoonSuperHero)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/124 "2004-01-04T23:50:22Z")
_ROTFLMAO_ I think I woke up Mr.SuperHero laughing my arse off at this. _wipes tears from her eyes_ I must be SUPERdemonic because I have lots and lots of candles, the guest bathroom (aka the Baby’s Bathroom) is decorated in little yellow rubber duckies, I collect Beanie Babies AND Unicorns. There must be a special place in this guy’s hell for people like me. At least I won’t be lonely, if all you other demon-possessed Dopers are with me, right? CartoonSu ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/125 "2004-01-05T01:41:49Z")
They’ll have to build a new level of Hell just for Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/126 "2004-01-05T02:54:09Z")
This site rules! “If a person is DRIVEN to do ANYTHING, a demon is behind it.” hehehehehe. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/127 "2004-01-05T02:57:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*This site rules! > > “If a person is DRIVEN to do ANYTHING, a demon is behind it.” > > hehehehehe. \*\* uh, what if a person is driven to drive out demons?? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/128 "2004-01-05T04:36:11Z")
And what about chauffeurs? Are they all demons? Just look at all the driving they do. And bus drivers! And cabbies! And long-haul truckers! Demons, every one of them, loose upon our highways and byways? ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/129 "2004-01-05T04:51:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*And what about chauffeurs? Are they all demons? Just look at all the driving they do. And bus drivers! And cabbies! And long-haul truckers! Demons, every one of them, loose upon our highways and byways? \*\* Well I am just SCREWED! I spend 7 hours a day during the school year on a school bus. I am not the driver but I am definately being driven to places! School holidays and summer I deliver pizza… just came off of 5 grueling days of delivery… Worse still I have stuffed animals on the bus and in my truck… well I’ll save y’all a seat near the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/130 "2004-01-05T05:24:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krisfer the Cat \* > well I’ll save y’all a seat near the Pit. I don’t know if anyone has brought this up before, but G-d created paisley and all the other things. Doesn’t that earn him the best seat in the Pit? There might be a way we can turn this around, to our advantage, since he really knows how to get things done. Air-conditioning and rock 'n roll, instead of harps and church music. Hmm…Do you think the Christians will notice he’s missing? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/131 "2004-01-05T06:29:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*uh, what if a person is driven to drive out demons?? \*\* That’s the loner demon who doesn’t like the other demon who is driving you to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/132 "2004-01-05T07:01:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*That’s the loner demon who doesn’t like the other demon who is driving you to do that. \*\* He listens to Pat Boone, watches M.C. Hammer’s church broadcasts, goes by the name “Arthur”, and wants to be an accountant. (Thanks to Terry Pratchett’s _Carpe Jugulum_ for some of the inspiration/ripoff) ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/133 "2004-01-05T11:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IWLN \* > \*\*I don’t know if anyone has brought this up before, but G-d created paisley and all the other things. Doesn’t that earn him the best seat in the Pit? There might be a way we can turn this around, to our advantage, since he really knows how to get things done. Air-conditioning and rock 'n roll, instead of harps and church music. Hmm…Do you think the Christians will notice he’s missing? \*\* **IWLN** , you are now my second favorite Christian on this board! There were more lit candles in church on Sunday, superflous ones, too, not just the ones on the altar. It’s nice to know my church remains doomed. Out of curiousity, on Christmas Eve, I was driven to church by a bus driver. Is that more evidence of demonic possession? How about the kids who are driven to church by their parents (and I mean that in both senses of the word!)? Come to think of it, I would hate to think what it must be like to be that person. CJ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/134 "2004-01-05T13:55:02Z")
Didn’t CS Lewis say something like, “The only trick the Devil has greater than convincing you that he is everywhere is to convince you he doesn’t really exist”? Of course, that is severely paraphrased, and 25 years after I last read _The Screwtape Letters_ ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/135 "2004-01-05T14:40:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siege \* > **IWLN** , you are now my second favorite Christian on this board! Well thank you, but I will have to strongly deny the Christian part. That title is no longer appropriate for me. My denial is paisley though. Extra points!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/136 "2004-01-05T18:35:22Z")
There really are demons, however. But they don’t hide everywhere! This guy is a bit obsessed. I’ve felt them in occult bookstores, and astrology books and/or magazines. I also don’t care that people on this board (mostly not chrsitians) don’t believe me. Its true, hey why not try and conjour one up if you don’t believe me? have fun. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/137 "2004-01-05T19:19:38Z")
So that’s why my collection of books on Wicca fly around the room on a regular basis. I just thought the Stephen King books were being a bad influence. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/138 "2004-01-06T01:07:40Z")
_Candle candle candle candle Candle candle candle candle Candle cancle candle candle Mushroom mushroom SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAAAAKE_ There. Now this whole thread is a demon. Or demonic. Or… You know, now that I think about it, I’m not entirely clear about these people’s theology. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/139 "2004-01-06T01:23:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*So that’s why my collection of books on Wicca fly around the room on a regular basis. I just thought the Stephen King books were being a bad influence. \*\* ha and ha demons do not always “make things fly around” maybe you’ve been visited by uri Geller.😛 ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068/140 "2004-01-06T01:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > You know, now that I think about it, I’m not entirely clear about these people’s theology. Hmmm… According to the site, this is not a certain theology or belief. This is the _true word of Jesus_. Did they even have deodorant back then??? Or seasoning salt?? You know these people might not be on the up and up. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candles-are-demonic-yes-thats-right-candles/222068.md?page=8)