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Justice Antonin Scalia Believes In Hell And The Devil–But Not Gays And Atheists
At Salon, Jeffrey Taylor’s summary of Antonin Scalia’s interview with New York magazine caught me for a loop. The man is seriously superstitious, living in a demon haunted world: [Jennifer] Senior interviewed Scalia for her magazine. She asked for his … Continue reading
A New Documentary Tracks the Life of a Vatican Approved Exorcist
The documentary is titled, The Exorcist in the 21st Century, and was done by a Norwegian filmmaker. Here’s the trailer.
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Tagged atheism, Catholicism, demons, documentaries, documentary, exorcism, faith, film, God, Jesus
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Would “The Last Exorcism” Have Been Better Titled “The Last Atheist”?
I saw The Last Exorcism this past weekend and, yes, it’s really good. And scary. And it’s also a bit of an ancient Greek morality play, which makes it philosophically interesting as well: what if a good-hearted cynic, an unbeliever of the Marjoe or Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, Apollo and Dionysus, atheism, atheist, Bakkhai, cotton marcus, demon possession, demons, Euripides, exorcism, the last exorcism
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The Last Exorcism: The Blair Witch Project Meets Marjoe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
At Salon, Andrew O’Hehir describes the genre that the Blair Witch Project launched: Your horror movie’s going to look like raw documentary footage, full of mistakes and retakes and hinky camera angles and jagged non-edits. In fact, why not make … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, demons, exorcism, film, God, Jesus, marjoe, movie review, nathaniel hawthorne, the last exorcist, Young Goodman Brown
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Official Vatican exorcist, Don Gabriele Amorth, blames priest pedophilia on Satan, atheists, and working women
No joke. According to Salon today, official Vatican exorcist Don Gabriele Amorth: . . . told the UK Times, “All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including pedophilia.” He also added that contemporary culture has “given in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, child abuse, don gabriele amorth, exorcism, God, Jesus, pedophilia, religious literalism, Satan, the devil
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Weird Fact for the Day: Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (and Serious Rush Limbaugh Dittohead) WAS A COLLEGE EXORCIST!
So says TPM Online. Money quote: As others noted during his 2003 and 2007 gubernatorial campaigns (see update), in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story … Continue reading
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Talk Radio and the Louisiana Exorcist: Beloved Leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, HEARTS Exorcist Bobby Jindal—and Exorcist Bobby Jindall HEARTS Rush Limbaugh, Too
The love affair between Rush Limbaugh and exorcist Bobby Jindal is getting intense. Exorcist Jindal seems to have a serious crush on El Rushbo: In an interview with Limbaugh in 2007, Jindal gushed that he reads Limbaugh’s books and that he is … Continue reading
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Tagged bobby jindal, dittohead, exorcism, love, Politics, psychology, religion, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the exorcist
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