What most people call ghosts are actually demons masquerading as someone who has died. It's a cruel deception that often falls on people who are deep in grief and mourning.
It is interesting to note that most "hauntings" happen in catholic homes or involve someone of the catholic persuasion.
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No, you supercilious, self-important fuckwit. Paranormal activity is not exclusive to catholics, nor is it a majority issue with them. It happens to people regardless of religion, race or social status.
Unlike you sanctimonious fundy types, spirits don't discriminate.
Even the dead are better people than you.
It's normal that such "events" happen with people in grief and mourning
At this point the most sensible persons may have lost the very hang of reality and are very likely to compare anything to a "sign from the dead"...
Or believe your stuff ?
No, it can't be (insert stupid explanation here), it's actually (insert another stupid explanation here.)
@anti-nonsense
Catholics are only Christians to rapturds when they want to trot out statistics on how Christian the country is. Otherwise the Catholics are gonna be burning in hell with the rest of us heretics.
Ghost? Hah! Poppycock! Obviously, we're dealing with demons, here. I mean, that's just common sense.
No, most "hauntings" occur in the homes of superstitious people who believe in ghosts. While I do know a great many superstitious Catholics, I don't think superstition is limited to them and I'm willing to bet that a great many other Christians have experienced "hauntings" as well. One thing I've noticed is that the more religious a person is, the more superstitious they're likely to be.
In other words, ghosts exist only in the minds of people who believe in them and attribute every strange occurrence to them.
Did you know? Low hanging fruit are often the yummiest.
But the need for lying will end ...er, soon.
Almost right. Ghosts AND demons are fictions imagined by those in emotional turmoil and/or weak of mind.
As for your assertion about Catholics, I'd really like to see your source materials... wait, no, not if it's your butt.
"It is interesting to note that most "hauntings" happen in catholic homes or involve someone of the catholic persuasion."
There are 1 billion Catholics in the world right now... they already believe in supernatural shit... they are likely to think things are a haunting rather than something mildly unusual.
No fucking shit they'll be a massive number of "haunting" victims... in the same way that morons who think they are under spiritual attack are going to make up a massive number of victims of "spiritual attacks"
On two separate occasions I have had experiences that can't be explained by any normal means outside of the most amazingly improbable of coincidences. While neither of these qualify as a classic ghost/haunting experience, I would suggest a little kindness is in order toward people who think they have reason to believe in such things. We don't know everything about the nature of the continuum we occupy. Until something truly weird happens to you, you might not know what I mean.
That said, the whole idea of demons disguising themselves as dead relatives is ludicrous. Ectoplasmic nose putty? Ethereal grease paint from long-dead theatres? Phantom false mustaches? Really!
If you wait long enough, I'm sure that Shaggy and Scooby will prove that it's only Old Mr. Grimsley.
Well, if we get into technical terms, one could easily say there are no demons, only angry ghosts who are so obsessed with their Passion they refuse to move beyond the Veil...
Wait, this isn't an Unknown Armies RP? Oh.
I'd say that in the US it's the other way around, that Baptists are lousy with spirits, possessions, etc. Whatever the other failings of the Catholic church may, they've traditionally been very reluctant to acknowledge any type of supernatural phenomenon. Recently they do seem more willing to send a priest out to bless a home, probably just a way to compete with the Protestant woo.
"The Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the existence of ghosts. This is because doing so would be contrary to their beliefs regarding the afterlife. According to the church, a soul leaves the body after death. The soul is either accepted into heaven or condemned to hell for all eternity. However, ghosts are believed to be spirits that left the body after death but did not leave the earth, which is in contrast to what the Catholic church believes."
most "hauntings" happen in catholic homes or involve someone of the catholic persuasion.
You must mean all those fundamentalist evangelistic Catholics from the South who disguise themselves as Baptists.
Funny, first you fabricate some wild POV story about what ghosts are, then blame the Catholics for it.
Considering that there are far more Catholics in the world than any other denomination, this wouldn't be surprising even if true - which it probably isn't anyway:
"All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity." (Roman Catholic Catechism)
As I had said in a different post: "Don't forget...the bible is the antidote to superstition"!
Hauntings can happen anywhere you monkeyhead! Castles, Toys-R-Us stores, cemeteries, radio stations, libraries, restaurants, bars/pubs, homes of Protestants & Jews, etc....Japan's folklore is loaded with weird spooks. If there's been a death, especially a sudden or traumatic one, on a property in in a building, there is going to be the possibility of a haunting! The religious affiliation of the folks being haunted is irrelevant!
Now, I personally believe that devils are the souls of really evil psychopathic people. If the spook in question is the soul of someone like Hitler or Ted Bundy, then yes, perhaps your "ghosts are really demons" schpeil may be true to a point.
Now, of course, many will find my response to be just as loopy as your original comment but I don't care. At least I'm not an strictly organized religion, anti-science, far-right fundieface like you, I just have a very spiritual worldview, that's all. I'm a NeoPagan, shoot me.
@Ludd:
Don't be stupid, they aren't demons, they are evil fairies.
In other words, better stock up on cold iron weapons rather than silver/blessed ones. :P
What most people call ghosts are actually demons masquerading as someone who has died.
Silly! They're actually protrusions into this world of cybermen trying to break through from a parallel world. Sheesh!
Confused?
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