When fantasy worlds collide.

I'm still marveling at the idea that the cardinal has his own exorcist. Is casting out demons a full-time job? Or does he have a preventive function? What does he do when the demons take a break? Play cards? Jerk off?

What do you suppose are the qualifications? Is a job description posted somewhere?

Frank Moorman, skeptic

Fr Davies compares militant atheists to rational Satanists, and blames them for a rise in demonic activity.

There's a perfectly rational explanation for this. Everytime one of you mean old atheists say you don't believe in angels, another angel dies. That tips the balance in the other world in favor of demons , who can then get friskier. There are two antidotes: one is to ring bells, since every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings! The other is to close your eyes real tight and chant "I do believe in angels! I do believe in angels!", which brings angels back to life. It all makes perfect sense after imbibing your favorite hallucinogenic!

I thought Madonna worshipped satin...

Almost no need to read the rest of the post.

I believe the Cardinal is referring to the LaVeyan Satanists, who are atheists, rather than gnostic or theistic Luciferians. Anton LaVey, and his followers, do not believe in the supernatural. Their "spirituality" is largely based on Nietzschean Will to Power and unrestrained hedonism. LaVeyan Satanism is the most recognized form of Satanism, but that is largely due to good marketing.

Comments like these are common whenever opposing delusions collide. I've heard chiropractors deride osteopaths, chakra adjusters tear into acupressurists, rabbit foot toting bingo players laugh at those who put their faith in lucky hats, and supporters of any political party explain why their side is always right.

Too bad we can't harness all that jumping up and down and arm waving as an energy source.

I find it hysterically funny when Christianity tries to trash talk Astrology, when the Bible itself is shot through with astrological terms and allusions. Though it has been surpassed and supplanted by Astronomy, Astrology was based on empirical observation of the sun and stars, and the correlation of these celestial movements with the yearly, seasonal cycles on earth..."April showers bring May flowers" (Aquarius the Waterbearer symbolising the coming of the spring rains), that kind of thing. Even before professional Egyptologists provided us with very good corroborating evidence, men like Thomas Paine were able to deduce that Christianity was a cheap parody of ancient sun-worship; Robert Price shows that none of the Jesus myth is entirely original but is really a crazy quilt patchwork of different older myths all strikingly similar, and that it's special pleading in the extreme to insist that no, the Jesus incarnation of the myth, THAT's the one that *really* happened.

The Catholic church is trying to do what it always has done since its inception--namely, obscure its own roots and trash talk and demonize its forbearers and present itself thereby as the "genuine" article without historical antecedents, which is an utter fabrication.