Scary...
Interestingly her priest thought she was demonically possessed
I have known several people who have had epilepsy, certainly blacking out and convulsing is common, but I have never known any of them to eat spiders or drink their own urine.
The story that inspired the film was of a boy. I knew a priest who knew the priest. Beatty described it
Is this the entire article? On Twitter, I only see a Before and After photograph of the young lady. I do believe in the possibility of demon possession, but I also think there have been many incidents of physical and psychological illness being misinterpreted as possession. You don’t hear of it happening very often within the United States these days. More commonly such stories will be from third world countries in Central America, Haiti, Mexico and parts of Africa. Very sad.
Everyone loses when they jump to unprovable conclusions like this one. Her parents most likely loved their daughter,but they apparently did the wrong thing for righteous and sincere reasons.
Nowadays when it happens in America, one often finds that at least one of the parents or caregivers is themselves afflicted with paranoid schizophrenic delusions.
I hated the movie because Rose said the devil is good because proof of his existence is proof of God’s existence. No, Rose, that’s perverted. Evil is proof of evil and good is proof of good. Get good by eliminating the things in your life that are stressing you. At the end of the film after the church failed to save her she said, if it glorifies God for me to be possessed by the devil then I am willing to let Satan eat me up. No, Hollywood, this is perverse. The points the film tries to make is hopelessness and despair, that the devil can do anything he wants to anybody because God and humans are powerless. The movie should have been called Satan Wins. Perverted.
“The story goes that Blatty heard about the Maryland case while he was a student at Georgetown University. In mid-1949, a number of newspapers reported an alleged possession and eventual exorcism of a boy known as ‘Robbie’ or ‘Roland Doe’.“
It should only take one time. They fear the name of Jesus.
Its interesting to note that for 4 years, her family sought intervention from various forms of “medical science” before considering exorcism.
So claims of “superstition” from the Twitter crowd are wrong.
Clearly the 67 exorcisms were not successful.
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“After undergoing 67 exorcisms...”
Talk about your basic definition of stupidity.
67 exorcisms didn’t cure her - who’d have guessed?