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I saw that article - not the thread or the video itself.

I think if my child did this I would be in shock, even if I had feared that it was coming.

I helped my daughter talk her friend out of suicide. The friend hung up on her and all we could do was desperately pray that what we feared wouldn’t happen. In our case it didn’t, for which I am very thankful. But it could just as easily have gone the other direction and if it had we would have been in shock because the illness won.

Some have suggested that the family was in on Islam. Certainly they knew he was Muslim and that he was all-in. Maybe he was trying to recruit them and they were being persuaded. Maybe they saw him in the clutch of a cult and were trying to win him back. We don’t know. Maybe we never will.

Whether it be a cult or some other disease of the mind, or actual demons, families are torn apart watching it happen, especially if they are trying to win the person back to health.

Islam is a demonic cult. When a person truly swallows it hook line and sinker, it makes wild animals out of what were once human beings. The word itself means “submit”. In Christian circles there are a lot of songs asking God to take total control, people submit totally to God. And as Christians we want our children to do that - submit to God so that He controls their whole life. That’s what Muslims think they’re doing - only the “God” they submit to is a demon. How easily could this happen to someone raised in Christianity, or to somebody who’s become embittered by life and wants to totally start over as if Christianity had failed them?

A couple weeks ago my daughter and I saw “God is Not Dead”. A lot of times atheism is anger at God, sometimes because of loss - as depicted in that movie. The Bible talks about somebody sweeping the house clean of demons but because the house is empty even more demons come and make their home there. Nature abhors a vacuum. The analogy is true, that inside every person there is a God-shaped hole. If the real God isn’t filling up that emptiness, the person will try to fill it with something else. Maybe cocaine, like it seems this guy got into. Maybe self-sanctimonious liberalism/atheism which has landed more than one person as an ally of Islamicism. Maybe a different “god”.

When we watch people trying to fill the void with something besides the real God, it hurts. Big-time.

I don’t know the truth about this family. I just know if it was me I would be really hurting, and I would be wanting the Christian community to pray with me for my son’s soul to be rescued from these demons.