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We have all seen movies about people being possessed by a supernatural being, like demons or ghost, and claim to be based on a true story.  A great example of this is the Exorcist,  the person is seen with supernatural strength and talks with a voice that doesn't belong to them.  She is possessed by a demon. 

First, what is a possession?  According to the dictionary, a possession is, " Being controlled by or as if by a spirit or other force" (1).  The word possession is often associated with demons or ghost. Now a demon is an angel that has rebelled against God, they live a separate spiritual life that is pictured as dark and lonely.  These dark angels rebel against God, through influencing other angels and having humans sin in order to prevent them to become angelic. Demons therefore possess to cause sin, in spite of God (2).


"According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, signs of demonic possession include superhuman strength, aversion to holy water, and the ability to speak in unknown languages. Other potential signs of demonic possession include spitting, cursing, and "excessive masturbation"" (5).  Does this mean that we are all possessed?  Makes me wonder...

Demons will possess the people who often open the doorway of the dark spiritual world.  These doorways can be by the actions you do, knowing that what you are doing is wrong but continue to do it none the less.  I am sure that makes everyone open to there dark spiritual world... scared?  Other common doorways would be Ouija boards and demon worship (3). The movie, Paranormal Activity, shows how the Ouija board was a gateway to the demonic world.

If a person is possessed by a demon, often it is very hard to gain control over that person again.  That is when people resort to exorcisms, "A ceremony that seeks to expel a demon from a person or a place" (4).  It is performed most of the time by priest who have received special permission from the church (6).  The video below explains what happens during an exorcism.  The priest states that the demons talks in order to get a break from  the beating of the prayer.

I believe in good and evil.  I believe in ghost, because of my loved one. I have therefore a slight belief in the supernatural possessions by demons.  I look at it as, if there is good there must be a moralistic God - and I use the word God lightly because I only believe in the good morals in which he promotes but not in the the fact that he is the almighty creator, as if... but honestly, science is what created us, sorry believers but the facts prove the church wrong many times,  why do you think Galileo was sent to jail? The church was in charge and he had proven that they were wrong on their beliefs.  If I believe in good I then believe in bad, therefore a devil and demons, scientifically, there cannot be one force without an opposite and equal force (Good: Evil).  I believe that these possessions are rare but completely plausible.  There is no real way to prove it, but there must have been instances where such thing has happened in order to create such belief.  I highly doubt that our minds can cause us to speak different languages or in different voices and having a different personality, without having learnt it. What do you think?

 

(1) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/possessed
(2) http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/10/13/what-is-a-demon
(3) http://www.examiner.com/article/demonology-101-why-do-people-become-possessed
(4) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/exorcism
(5) http://www.livescience.com/27727-exorcism-facts-and-fiction.html
(6) http://www.exorcismus.org/exorcism-and-exorcists/212-who-is-an-exorcist