[Carthego delenda est]

The guy is in desperate need of an exorcist.

[ladyjane]

Interesting you say that.

The first thing I said to myself when I saw his picture is “That man is desperate.”

[Bigg Red]

Yep

[Slyfox]

The guy is in desperate need of an exorcist.

Sometimes not even that will help.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I find myself thinking a lot more about exorcism these days. There are forces of evil that truly transcend what you could call --- I am writing paradoxically --- the "humanly" or "naturally" evil.

I don't mean that any evil is good. I just mean that, humanly speaking, you can understand the motivation of a man who beats up another man because he wants his wallet, or his wife. You can understand sins based on uncontrolled greed, lust or anger. But what about sins that offer no real "payoff" in this life? Sins that are not spurred by, say, anial drive or material self-interest, transcendent sins spurred by transcendent drives, like the drive to be as ugly as possible, as blasphemous as possible? -- clearly these are spiritual, but not spiritual from "on high."

These spiritual-from-below sins: surely the sinners must be acting at the direct bidding of a diabolical master.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Typo/ “Animal drive”.