Has this ever happened to you?
You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence? Or if you said outloud "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" within the listening ears of a group of people and one person or a few persons glared at you with intense anger?
Would you say that some unbelievers are possessed by demons and when a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit is very close by that the demons can sense that and thus they manifest an overt hatred for the Triune God?
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You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence? Or if you said outloud "Ia Ia Cthulu Fthang" within the listening ears of a group of people and one person or a few people glared at you with intense anger?
Would you say that some mortals of no importance are repulsed by Lord Cthulu the Great and when a cultist indwelt by the Madness that Sleeps is very close by that the mortals can sense that and thus they manifest an overt hatred for the Great Old One?
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<Has this ever happened to you?>
No, but I have occasionally been in a restaurant enjoying a nice meal when some loud, obnoxious a$$hole comes in and starts screaming about Jesus, ruining everybody else's peaceful meal.
Usually, when you walk into a place, a whole bunch of people will look up and see if it's someone they know, then they usually return to their business.
I've never said "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" out loud, so I wouldn't know, but I highly doubt that anyone would glare with intense anger at something so harmless (albeit grammatically clumsy). If someone said that in my vicinity, I would probably snigger or look at the person with pity and/or exasperation.
No, I have never experienced any evidence of demons, whatsoever; apparently they only attack fundies.
can't say i'm infamous enough, or disliked enough, in my local community, for that sort of thing to happen to me.
there are a few folks living in my town who ARE well enough known --- i should say, ill enough known --- that i can imagine they have that sort of experiences. they're jerks, and have been loud enough about it that everybody knows them. i'm not boasting when i claim i'm not one of them.
"Would you say that some unbelievers are possessed by demons and when a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit is very close by that the demons can sense that and thus they manifest an overt hatred for the Triune God?"
...and unless you asked me to come back to your place, asked me to put on 'Angel Wings', gave me a NERF foam sword, and showed me a bathtub, whereupon you felt uneasy as I looked, pointed & laughed at you, then the answer would be 'No'.
...and if you 'said outloud "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ"' in a restaurant here in the UK, they'd certainly look at you, feeling uneasy; at least one of the diners would get their mobile phone out and call the police. Whereupon you'd be arrested, taken away and most probably have you sectioned under the Mental Health Act & put in the nut farm. NEXT!
Will you people make up your minds already?
First it's that believers don't get possessed, then it's that believers are the only ones targeted. Decide already.
If I cried out "What the Yogging Sothoth" or "By Shadow, Star, and Void" in public, people would stare at me, too.
No demons, just people staring at the disruptive one. They'd stare with the exact same glares if you called out "Googly glebily glorch!"
Are you walking into the restaurant in a monk's robe and sandals, with a sandwich board proclaiming the end of the world? Or carrying a flaming cross? If "everyone looks at you" then you have your choice of demon number one (you are deliberately provoking attention with your appearance or your actions) or demon number two (you are very self-conscious and imagine they're noticing you). Both of those demons are yours alone.
Sweetie, that isn't anger, it's annoyance.
I'm thinking 2 things here. Either she said it louder than she's letting on or she's lying.
@ Skidie
Actually, that would be fun. There is a song by The Vision Bleak called Kutulu. Try do sing it in a restaurant, the reactions are going to be hilarious (and the song is a whooper...).
Should somebody come to me yammering about Jesus, my reaction would be to ask what sort of role model gets nailed to a cross between two pimps. And then to praise Odin. Since I have yet to see any Jotun around, Odin must be doing a better work than Jesus who claimed he would get all people to love each other.
You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence
There's something very wrong with you if that's the case.
Or if you said outloud "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" within the listening ears of a group of people and one person or a few persons glared at you with intense anger?
Because that's not how civilised people act in Western society.
Would you say that some unbelievers are possessed by demons and when a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit is very close by that the demons can sense that and thus they manifest an overt hatred for the Triune God?
Ah, the demon of manners and normal behavior.
"Has this ever happened to you? You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence?"
Yes.
Granted, at the time, I was licking the waitress's ears and telling everyone I was doing it in the name of Jesus. That might have had something to do with it.
You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence?
It happens to paranoid schizophrenics all the time. There are some medications for it.
you said outloud "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" within the listening ears of a group of people and one person or a few persons glared at you with intense anger?
If you said it at a Bar Mitzvah, the whole room would probably give you "WTF", if not angry, stares.
"You walked into a restaurant and a whole bunch of people looked at you and feeling uneasy in your presence?".
All the time. But that is because I have the face, body and bearing of an Adonis so I'm used to it.
Has this ever happened to you?
Or if you said outloud "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" within the listening ears of a group of people and one person or a few persons glared at you with intense anger?
Has this ever happened to you?
if you said outloud "God is dead and the Bible is a huge fairy tale" in a church on Sunday and one person or a few persons glared at you with intense anger?
Must be demons at work, they manifest an overt hatred.
(Skidie)
Please pass the sacramental fried calamari, would you?
(TimeToTurn)
Nor most un civilized people, for that matter.
Would you say that some unbelievers are possessed by demons and when a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit is very close by that the demons can sense that and thus they manifest an overt hatred for the Triune God?
No, I wouldn't say that because that would be fricking insane.
"Has this ever happened to you?"
You're trying to have a pleasant meal with some family or friends, and then some fundie comes in and starts shouting about how "God is great" in an inappropriately loud voice, making conversation virtually impossible and effectively ruining your only night out of the week?
If your god (and his followers) wasn't such a damned attention whore, then maybe you wouldn't be getting those looks in public places. But then, you also wouldn't be able to cry about how "persecuted" you are if that were the case.
Let me explain this to you. Try to wrap your mind around this.
You're sitting in a restaurant enjoying a peaceful pleasant meal and reading a bible.
Then, a couple of people you don't know and have never seen before come in and take a seat next to you. They start talking in loud obnoxious voices. One of them stares at you when he notices you're reading a King James Bible. The other asks you in a voice that everyone nearby can hear if you actually realize what bullshit the thing is, or if you're dumb enough to really and truly believe what you're reading. He calls you deluded and tells you that there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet. The rest of their conversation mostly consists of them talking about what a deluded jackass you are and the utter misery that waits for people like you in the afterlife. Wouldn't you feel angry? Irritated? Uncomfortable? You might even shoot them angry looks and leave to find somewhere elseyou can read your Bible and eat in peace.
That's how the rest of us feel--atheist or theist alike--when someone like you walks into a room, and starts randomly trying to "rebuke"Satan, publically pray over them, and otherwise start rubbing your particular religious faith in their face in an incredibly obnoxious and pointed manner.
As a sidenote, this is what I'm enduring at my place of work right now, and as a result. The OP might as well be some of the people I'm presently working with.
Invoking your God in an average everyday setting IS also taking the Lords name in vain you dumb fucking fundamentalist. Learn your own religious bullshit wouldja?
Shouldn't you be getting ready to go vote for Trump again? The nuttiest of your leaders have given you your orders.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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