“Gabriele Amorth” sounds like a name Rowling would have made up for one of her bad-guy characters.
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I might’ve thought so too, if it weren’t for the fact that he alone has reportedly performed 30,000 exorcisms. Which must be pretty darn near a full time job.
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Can you perfrom mass exorcisms? Because otherwise that is two exorcisms a day without weekends off for 40 years. That is more exorcisms than I have had hot dinners.
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People don’t WANT to be reminded that the average German knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews. They don’t like to be reminded that the average Soviet soldier actually carried out many of Stalin’s purges. They don’t like to be reminded that evil isn’t that far under the surface, and it can affect “normal” people. They like to think that it’s something remote and rare and exclusive to the rare monstrous personality.
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I think that they also like to think that evil is an external enemy, because then it can be walled out or destroyed. Imprison or kill the Nazis/crooks/Commies/whatever, and you’ll be safe.
I’ve started to think that Religious leaders and Political types by some unwritten law must be published in a major newspaper spouting off nonsense in order to keep their tenture/jobs.
This is purely a theory of mine.
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Can you perfrom mass exorcisms? Because otherwise that is two exorcisms a day without weekends off for 40 years. That is more exorcisms than I have had hot dinners.
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i can’t say exactly why it struck me this way, but i nearly did a chai-on-monitor maneuver over that one.
and as a registered (but open-minded) RC, i’d say the term “batshit insane” invoked up-thread is probably more than apt for the subject Exorcist. (anybody have a good flight of steps handy?)
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Link here.
Well, now that I own all the Harry Potter books I guess I can give into my godless urges of goat sacrifices and devilish Black Masses and listening to the new Paris Hilton album. Be seeing you all.
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Just keep in mind that those funny-looking hats they wear are all lined with tinfoil.
If by “Satanic” he means “purely mythological”, then he’s right.
Say it loud, say it proud:
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC
If by “Satanic” he means “purely mythological”, then he’s right.
Say it loud, say it proud:
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC
[QUOTE=gazpacho]
Can you perfrom mass exorcisms? Because otherwise that is two exorcisms a day without weekends off for 40 years. That is more exorcisms than I have had hot dinners.
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Okay, consider the source but. . . In an interview with Art Bell I recall Malachi Martin saying that during some exorcisms more than one evil spirit may appear and have to be delt with. He (Martin) also worked with other priests present.
Perhaps the 30,000 represents a combination of multiple spirits, exorcisms at which he was present and maybe a little exaggeration.
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Just keep in mind that those funny-looking hats they wear are all lined with tinfoil.
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The wizards, or the bishops?
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If by “Satanic” he means “purely mythological”, then he’s right.
Say it loud, say it proud:
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC
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Say it twice. 
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Can you perfrom mass exorcisms?
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You can; just google mass exorcism. I don’t know if this guy has, however; perhaps he just doesn’t have a life.
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The wizards, or the bishops?
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The bishops use tinfoil, the wizards mithril.
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
The wizards, or the bishops?
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Gosh darn it, I couldn’t get through earlier to post that. “The page is taking too long to load.”
My seconds shall call upon you in the morning, Sir. Brick bats at half a mile.
The good father has supposedly performed 50000 exorcisms. Oookay…
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Okay, consider the source but. . . In an interview with Art Bell I recall Malachi Martin saying that during some exorcisms more than one evil spirit may appear and have to be delt with. He (Martin) also worked with other priests present.
Perhaps the 30,000 represents a combination of multiple spirits, exorcisms at which he was present and maybe a little exaggeration.
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While I think that you might have a point that the total could reflect multiple spirits at a single event, having read one of Martin’s books, I think that it’s more likely someone’s been guzzling the communion wine.
Wicked.
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I’m assuming that you meant that as a joke, so realize that I know that. But the thing is, you can’t give him that. That contention is basically throwing the ultimate responsibility for the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler on the shoulders of a nonexistent demon rather than on the humans (and human societies) that committed them or allowed them to be committed. To deny that humanity is capable of great evil without a supernatural instigator is to blind yourself to possible future Holocausts.
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The nazis would still be responsible, for having given in to temptation. Repeatedly and gleefully.