THE Freethinker’s Booby of the Week prize goes to Father Jeremy Davis, 73, exorcist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, who warned that atheism was becoming a key cause of demonic influence in the world.
Spirits inspiring atheism are those that hate God.
The Luton-based Catholic priest – a former medical doctor who was ordained in 1974 and who has been an exorcist since 1986 – also claims that “a contagious demonic factor” is among the causes of homosexuality.
According to The Catholic Review, in a new 56-page book called Exorcism: Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice, Father Davies writes that Satan had blinded secular humanists from seeing:
The dehumanising effects of contraception and abortion and IVF (in vitro fertilization), of homosexual ‘marriages,’ of human cloning and the vivisection of human embryos in scientific research.
Father Davies also said atheism was largely to blame for entrapping people in states of “perversion.”
But, hey, heterosexuality can also be bad:
… Heterosexual promiscuity is a perversion; and intercourse, which belongs in the sanctuary of married love, can become a pathway not only for disease but also for evil spirits.
He called occult practices such as magic, fortunetelling and contacting the spirits of the dead “direct invitations to the devil which he readily accepts.” He said such practices involve the abandonment of self-control, making them as corrupting an influence as hard drugs, demonic music and pornography.
At the same time, Father Davies said the “thin end of the wedge,” such as soft drugs, yoga for relaxation and horoscopes for fun, were just as dangerous.
And in a statement bound to enrage Muslims, he lumped Mohammed in with Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. They were, he said:
Heretical prophets and false messiahs who led their followers to a demonic bondage of conscience.
He also warned Catholics to be wary of what he called the “idolatrous demonic side” of Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and the druidism that had its origins in ancient Britain.
His book also spells out the degrees of demonic influence a person may experience, ranging from temptation and sin to obsession, then possession, with perfect possession being the gravest and rarest form that usually entails a deliberate commitment to evil on the part of the person involved.
The priest, though, wisely refrained from linking the giant American Procter & Gamble Corporation to the Devil. The last people who did that were ordered to pay P&G almost £10-million in damages. A group of Amway employees had claimed that P&G’s logo — a bearded, crescent man-in-moon looking over a field of 13 stars — was a symbol of Satanism.
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Or, put another way, if you’re not a good Catholic, you’re evil. So it’s okay to believe in eternal punishment for people who happen to be gay, but it’s not okay to use contraception? Loon of the Month might be a more apt award.
what a rediculous man that priest is
a definite booby
Clearly a man of straight out of the 16th century. Still, he’s right about the similarity between Mohammed and Joseph Smith, is he not? Though I’d go one further and bung in L.Ron for good measure.
The bishop of Carlisle, Graham Dow, is a similarly-minded theologian. (He’s the one who thought last year’s floods were the punishment of God, if I remember). In one of his books, he claimed that people who persistently wore black were likely to be possessed by demons.
Dow is a good friend and long-time spirtual adviser of Tony Blair, I believe.
Father Davis would expect followers of Catholicism to strive to be godlike, forsaking sins that reveal human frailty. The boob then lists a number of said sins that have a ..’dehumanising effect.
I’m so confused….
Makes me want to take up satanism
Crikey, if yoga is a tool of the devil that’s my local WI going straight to hell then. Guess I’d better bin that home-made jam just in case.
BTW - do you think Graham Dow ever saw the Father Ted episode where Ted explained why priests aren’t at all like Nazis (’Nazis always dress in black, follow orders without question and like to control people, while priests…..oh!’)
I suppose we should help round out the sin list with what will be very familiar to Davis, pedophilia. Dehumanising to the victim only in this case, probably why it didn’t make it to his list. That, or these perversions were perpetrated by atheist clergy, in which case explainable in his simple mind.
this is not surprising for a entity that still operates in th 1300’s if they are even that far advanced
so how do i get a copy of this book? i’d actually like to read it.
Morticia, you can buy this book online from the oxymoronic Catholic Truth Society by clicking on this link:
http://www.cts-online.org.uk/acatalog/info_Ex27.html
What an idiot!
I think a lot of this seems outrageous, because society has become so liberal and we are all force fed to accept integration with all sectors of this society, that we no longer live in a christian value based society.As a person who has dabbled with the spiritualist church side of the occult, I can see that so many of our freethinking new age values really do cause very deep seated unhappiness and degradation to our true spiritual relationship with GOD
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