>>I saw the Exorcist with a group of friends that included an Hispanic Catholic. He came unglued during the movie.
I can empathize with your buddy. My brother and I watched maybe 20 minutes of it before we shut it off (our eldest brother watched the whole thing). I've never seen it again and really have no desire to.
THAT movie scared me into prayer. No other movie has done that.
LOL - yeah, it was pretty intense.
Until I saw that movie, I had always believed that there was SOME good (God given 'spark of life') in everybody, no matter how bad they may have seemed.
After that, I realized that the possibility of true evil also existed in everyone, and that only our faith and choices allowed one or the other to thrive.
I believe that I probably began to truly understand the meaning of 'free will' then, and the power of faith.