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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 10:25 AM Jan 2017

After performing 6,000 exorcisms, this priest says the devil fears him

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/after-performing-6000-exorcisms-this-priest-says-the-devil-fears-him-13101/

Fr. Francisco Lopez Sedano is an 80-year-old Mexican exorcist. In the past 40 years of service, he has conducted at least 6,000 exorcisms.

And, he says, the devil is afraid of him.

Fr. Lopez told the newspaper Hoy Los Angeles (Los Angeles Today) that when the devil speaks to him through possessed people, he responds, “I am nobody, but I come from Christ, your Lord and God and you leave right now – I command you in His name that you go. Out!”

...

First, he emphasized, the devil is a person and not a thing. He noted that Jesus confronted the devil many times and spoke to him. When speaking with a demon, “one isn’t talking with a thing, one is talking with a person.”


There's a few other things he's sure about too, like possessed individuals being able to climb walls and even fly. Really! Or if someone gets possessed by the devil, it's because that person chose to let him in. Gotta love blaming the victim.

But I will give him credit for dissing astrology, even though it's for the wrong reasons.
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After performing 6,000 exorcisms, this priest says the devil fears him (Original Post) trotsky Jan 2017 OP
He's probably a Gemini cyclonefence Jan 2017 #1
LOL! n/t trotsky Jan 2017 #2
take that back!! Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #6
Great find. Zoonart Jan 2017 #3
today would be best Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #7
"Dissing astrology?" Really? Merlot Jan 2017 #4
They walk among us. Iggo Jan 2017 #5
Awesome. What a weird world these guys live in. n/t Fix The Stupid Jan 2017 #8

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
4. "Dissing astrology?" Really?
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 11:02 AM
Jan 2017

He believes the "devil" fears him. That he disses astrology is a good thing for astrology.

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