Exorcism can not be true, right?

United States
November 29, 2010 7:58pm CST
I just saw this movie "the last exorcism", more like a documentary film about this pastor, Cotton Marcus. He shows that he only perform exorcism to make other people who thought they were possessed by Demon is a truth. In reality, it is psychological affect, and there is no such demon element exist. He perform the act of exorcism, and he do all those tricks to make - believe for his client. At the end, it was all about evil - cult from a rural area who used religion to influence people's mind. So, whether religion is a good thing or not?
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• United States
30 Nov 10
I'm confused, are you asking whether exorcism is real or whether demon possession is real? Exorcism is undisputedly real. There are pastors, clergymen, and everyday real people who have claimed to have cast out demons. Where those people actually possessed by demons... that's a different question. I believe that demon possession is real. I don't watch exorcism movies because I think it glorifies a truly horrifying event and turns it into cheap entertainment. I don't think that just because a few people within a certain race, religion, or culture do bad things that automatically makes their group bad. Religion has been used to control and deceive people, but so have a lot of things. People can be cruel just fine without it. Besides, in our country the religious give more to charity and volunteer more than the non-religious.
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@shellback (864)
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
Its only depends to whom do you believed in, the question is do you believed that God exist? If not, that's another issue, I'm a believer of God so we are on different perception, He created everything that we saw and not, so if you're not believed in Him as a creator, where do you think you going and where do you from? Is there a direction or path in your life?
• United States
30 Nov 10
Actually, if you know what you are doing in your life, you shouldn't need any unseen being to guide you, or create something that exist above the sky to make you feel your existence worthwhile. I don't mean to offend any religion, but that is my true belief.
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
Well that was your opinion, I don't like to discuss any religion here because it can't save you, all I want to say here is about relationship to our creator, try to make some research about God, I know you're a clever one, try to ask why are you here for.
@Bionicman (3958)
• Czech Republic
30 Nov 10
Even if you believe in god it doesn't mean you have to believe in exorcism too. Just saying....
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
I've always believed that exorcism is a myth. The human mind is a very complex thing and it exhibits human behavior sometimes that shock even the experts of that field. Although we'll never know for sure unless it happens to us.
@pogi253 (1586)
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
In order to believe this story you have to consider that possession is possible. The movie was a great movie, especially for the Halloween month.
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
It is real aside from the fact that one of the scariest movie of all time "The Exorcist" was based on real event being documented by the Catholic church. I once met an priest from Malta and told us that he performed an exorcism in Ukraine on two sibling and it is unbelievable that the sibling spoke in Latin were the two only speaks in their own language.
30 Nov 10
Again i think its down to the individual, i see that film and found it very odd although not a bad film. i personally beliee there are good and bad spirits out there and even though in this film it the posession was found to b a sham there are plenty of possesions where people have actually needed a real exorcism .its scary stuff really
@alex8288 (290)
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
If you believe then it can be true. Like me I believe in ghost and I saw ghost. Just like Excorcism and Hex people which is non believer will never be affected by this one, they said that excorcism and hex will only be effective if the person is a believer.
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
I think exorcism is real and it is only don by certain clergy men in a particular religious sect or organization. I think that thee Christian church authorizes particular priests to do exorcism. Not all priests can do it. Only a few can. When it comes to the belief of the existence of demons in our midst, then, I'm not sure about that. I'm really not into the demon stuff or anything that may lead to it.
@visavis (5934)
• Philippines
30 Nov 10
Possessing evil spirit it is true because in the bible there a few occassion that Jesus cast-out demond possesed. In your topic question yes it is to be true of possessing demond if the meaning of exorcism is the same that it.. see you around