You still haven’t explained Nancy Grace. Are you seriously claiming that she isn’t demon possessed? Have you seen her eyes?
The problem here is that there’s no real, factual answer to the question, any more than there’s answer to the question Who’d win in a mud-wrestling fight between Buffy & Xena? Any non-dismissive answer–including the one I posted earlier–is hypothetical and maybe silly.
Who says that it’s rare? It seems like every time I pick up a book or open a thread, someone is blaming some phenomenon on widespread demon possession. Of course the word “demon” is rarely used. Instead people use the word “meme”, but the idea is substantially the same: a malicious being with desire and will, which exists but has no physical body, which can take over a person’s mind, which can travel from person to person, and which can only be defeated by submitting to the authorities.
Every human being possess a 1024-bit possession index. When a demon attempts a possession, it has to precisely match that code, and if it fails once, it’s forever locked out in a process similar to development of natural immunity.
Not to mock my father, but he believes in demon possession; it’s his standard explanation for inexplicable evil behavior. Usually he’ll trot it out for people like that fellow in California who kidnapped and held captive the little girl for 18 years, or the woman who ate her baby’s brain, and so forth; but I suspect if I pressed him he’d think that homosexuals are demon-possessed too.
(He’d say that I’m DECEIVED by the enemy, not possessed by him.)
I purposely left the ambiguity for humorous effect.
In the real world, I suppose to him, as I can’t imagine that you’d care, and if you did, you’d probably be pissed that you were merely deceived, and didn’t get to host a demon (Hi, come on in, appetizers are on the table, would you prefer white wine or red? Something else? Beer? Blood?)
I recall a Chick tract (no longer on his website, apparently) where the secular-humanist teacher Ms. Hinn is teaching tolerance by introducing a “perfectly normal” gay couple to Little Suzie’s elementary-school class. Each man has a small insectoid demon wrapped around his neck, and when they kiss, their demons kiss (the demons are apparently invisible to everyone but the reader and Little Suzie).
I thought that was the question we were answering, a “what if” proposition.
Ahh… one of the old-time serious craftsman type demons as Crowley considers them, the sort that would spend decades tempting a priest into sin (unlike Crowley’s flashy modern methods of bringing down cellphone networks… or turning the M25 ring road into a giant infernal prayer wheel).
Love that book – Pratchett signed my copy with “We made the devil do it”.
I knew it! Forensic ‘scientists’ and their ‘examining’ of ‘evidence’ is all a tool of the enemy! If the Secret Service has a lot of these Hagee guys employed, I might just take up counterfeiting…
That also reminds me. If you can stomach the link I posted earlier, look around for a list of demons to cast out. I remember that somewhere they tell you to invest in a good thesaurus and when casting out lust, you should also cast out carnality, libido, and any other synonyms you can find. Tricksy demons!
I remember that one! I thought the demons were kinda cute, though. Does that make me a godless sodomite?
