Posted on 10/18/2016 7:08:08 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
You say that both Fr. Hughes and Archbishop O'Boyle were young and naive. I am perfectly prepared to accept that. But I wonder if the machinery of the Church was seriously engaged. As the protocol on exorcisms works today (in my layman's understanding), medical and psychiatric professionals would first try to account for any non-supernatural explanations. There would be independent checks and balances. As I said before, I wonder what the staff at the GU Hospital had to say (assuming they were asked). And after the kid was taken to St. Louis, the evaluation was repeated there.
There are more loose ends than answers, but your father's account is fascinating.
Conceivably you could make your own Ouija board with some cardboard and a pen. Or simply print one out.
This is NOT about a board game.
This is about unwitting people calling on the devil, who is all too happy to answer the call.
In the C.S. Lewis book “The Screwtape Letters”, where a senior tempter is training an apprentice, the senior informs the student, “Cards are as good as murder, if the cards do the trick.”
The point is, the objective is to win the soul for Satan, and it doesn’t need to be a spectacular sin.
I am not overly regligious (in that I am not a heavy church goer.) But, for some reason, I hate those damned things.
My brother used to work in the plant that made them by the thousands, and every time my kids would ask him to get them one, I would put the foot down on it.
Nothing good will come of them. At least not in my house. I figure it is one of the few taboos that I believe in keeping taboo.
Absolutely satanic. This so called toy is a vehicle. Eventually, if you venture too far, you will set it aside realizing you can contact demons and evil spirits without the toy. I saw so many unexplained phenomena as a teenager from this tool it eventually led me to believe in Jesus. If you have one, BURN IT!
Luke 11:24-26
When the unclean spirit goes out from the man, it roams through waterless places, seeking rest, and not finding it, it says, I will return to my house from which I came out. And it comes and finds it swept and decorated. Then it goes and takes along other spirits more evil than itself, seven of them, and they enter and settle down there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.
Right there with you. I’ve heard enough stories at the very least to think, why risk it? What’s the upside?
I do think parents should warn children about the dangers of Ouija boards. As a child a friend and I used to goof around with one and nothing odd ever happened.
When I was a teen I went to a club sleepover and we were all messing with it, all fun and games until one girl took her turn. The answers started getting pretty spooky and we were all getting a little scared then all at once the girl got some answer that really spooked her. She ran outside as fast as she could run, screaming, pulling her hair- straight for a lake. We were all chasing her and someone caught her just before she ran right into the water. I mean she never slowed down or looked at where she was running; she was that terrorized. Totally hysterical; by then we were all terrorized and there is no way I believe it was any sort of prank. The girl was so frightened she was taken home. Then we were all warned not to play with Ouija, pretty sure by then we did not need the warning.
Talk to real exorcists
Sort of on the same level of stupid as dressing up like dinner and going swimming in a shark's dinning room.
There are things out there.
They are not friendly to humans.
Let's leave it at that.
Invented by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1, 1890, the name “Ouija” is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc., owner of such demonic brands as Lincoln Logs, Nerf products, and Play-Doh.
An employee of Elijah Bond, William Fuld, took over the talking board production. In 1901, Fuld started production of his own boards under the name “Ouija”.
Charles Kennard (founder of Kennard Novelty Company which manufactured Fuld’s talking boards and where Fuld had worked as a varnisher) claimed he learned the name “Ouija” from using the board and that it was an ancient Egyptian word meaning “good luck.”
When Fuld took over production of the boards, he popularized the more widely accepted etymology: that the name came from a combination of the French and German words for “yes”.
All this being said, the question remains, do Ouija boards expose people to demonic evil? Well, the public schools clearly do so, as does the Democrat party and the media, so if the answer is “oui” or “ja”, I would suspect that the talking boards are far down the food chain.
Matter of fact I won't even allow movies like the Exorcist (or any other devil related movie to be shown in my house.)
I concur that it’s ideomotor effect. I can’t explain why my friend’s massive German Shepherd was frightened of the board...but I don’t leap to the supernatural.
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