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Atheists & Agnostics

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DetlefK

(16,485 posts)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 08:31 AM Jul 2016

Bad news everybody. I just found out I'm possessed by a demon. [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/here-are-4-signs-you-might-be-demonically-possessed-according-to-a-catholic-psychiatrist/


The Washington Post has published an article by a Catholic psychiatrist named Richard Gallagher who says that there really are demonic possessions in the world, even though he concedes that most reported “possessions” are people suffering from more earthly mental illness.

So what separates your garden variety case of schizophrenia from full-blown demonic possession? Here are four key symptoms that Gallagher says are common in possession cases he’s encountered that can’t be explained by science:

1.) A person can suddenly speak in foreign languages they’ve never learned. ...

2.) A person develops superior strength and, in rare cases, might have powers of levitation. ...

3.) A person starts saying unusually venomous things about religion. ...

4.) A person has detailed knowledge about strangers’ histories and their most shameful secrets. ...




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Damn! (Literally.)
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