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A Note on Demons, by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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*Image: Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels by Domenico Beccafumi, c. 1524 [Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Feb. 10, 2023

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

My faith in Hollywood and the entertainment industry is not very deep. Leaving God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit aside for the moment (as Hollywood tends to do), the basic facts about angels and demons are not correctly presented. And this, after two thousand years of Christian teaching, ought to have enabled entertainers to get it right. But they fail, constantly.

The “problem” that most tries my patience at the moment is: demons. The ones I have seen in popular entertainment are over-dressed. They are rude and snarling, totally evil in fact; trying to frighten children and the older innocents.

Such demons can never be very successful in this world, or at least they weren’t successful until recently, because they can only seriously scare the mentally disturbed or neurotic. …

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A Note on Demons, by David Warren

Turns Out Biden Threatened Social Security, by Nate Jackson

The 15-Minute City: A Climate Solution? Or Just an ‘Excuse for More Control’? by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Feb. 10, 2023

The “problem” that most tries my patience at the moment is: demons. The ones I have seen in popular entertainment are over-dressed. They are rude and snarling, totally evil in fact; trying to frighten children and the older innocents.

Such demons can never be very successful in this world, or at least they weren’t successful until recently, because they can only seriously scare the mentally disturbed or neurotic. …

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