The Truth About Spiritual WarfareFr. ( . But Im saying it can appear to other people who are not Catholic that were just as out of touch as the people in this film when they rail against role-playing games. 27 mos. Okay. Cellar door, cellar door, Celador. Then youre off to the races. All exorcists that are worth their weight, theres only one guy who says its okay, but theres something wrong with that guy. Father Ripperger says Harry Potter is garbage. They risk their souls, and evil will take over the world. The exorcist went on to claim that the Deep State and communists are behaving like demons who are losing their grip on the possessed by claiming rights they do not have. I actually have a clip here from 1985 from 60 Minutes talking about Dungeons & Dragons, saying that, well, look, theres people who have taken their own lives playing Dungeons & Dragons, so its a serious game. The exorcist claimed that the devil was using people who are not leading morally good lives in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. The Da Vinci Code is a horrible novel. Theyre not calling on occult forces. Whether its true or not, I dont know. People love The Da Vinci Code. I think RPGs can stop evil when theyre Nazis or the Taliban. Im going to keep going, but Im sorry, I love movies with terrible acting. The only one that I could find, and this may be where Father Ripperger, or the person hes spoken with, gets that information from, is an anonymous article on the internet from someone claiming to be an ex-witch who practiced in the 1960s. Why not just sit down face-to-face and have a conversation about these things? He would take names that apply to a persons personality traits. What are you supposed to do if someone says, You know what, if somebody was a witch, and you ask them if they were a witch, they would say no. ( 3,586 ) $9.32 $18.89. Until then, check out next week. The other thing is, too, someone asked me to review the literature. But Jesus came that you might have life, and that more abundantly. Once again, I dont see hes Father Ripperger makes this claim that witches say theyre real spells. Peter Kreeft says you can lie to Nazis to save Jews hiding in your basement. . He recommends the following prayer for priests and laity, until the election is officially resolved: a binding prayer against evil. Father, I have a question. Ill play a clip for you. "Those who actually want whats best for this country, I think that this is just some external observations but I think there is a kind of in the minds of people, a feeling of vulnerability right now," Ripperger said. Once again, theres no evidence for that claim. Theyre just Latin words or theyre broken Latin words, usually referring to the very thing that theyre talking about. Maybe the demons have propped this up. I try very hard not to engage in friendly fire with other Catholics. The following are the views of three solid faithful leaders in our Church in relation to the abortion tainted vaccines administered for covid. Im willing to listen like, Hey, if theres something here that makes me think, hey, Harry Potter is bad news for Catholics, I want to hear it, but ultimately I listened to this answer, and its a talk that Father Ripperger He was in a talk, and someone asked him about Harry Potter, and he gave this answer. He continued: They believe the same things he does. Things like Ouija board, whose purpose is to communicate with the dead, I would say thats off limits, but Harry Potter is not like that. I played Twister as an eight-year-old, but now I see Twister is kind of a skeezy game if adults play it. Alistair, Garrick, Antioch, Ignotus, could be like Ignatius, Irma, Harry, James. Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible. Well, can we trust the word of a demon? If I know a loved one who is struggling with this kind of stuff, Im not going to bring up Harry Potter or magic if theyre struggling with temptations to do witchcraft. In Tolkien, the magic was a literary device. You can take any kind of game and indulge in immorality when youre playing it. Instead of investigating her case, he just said, Thank you for the good work that youre doing. Chad Ripperger: Leading expert in the area of spiritual warfare and exorcism* This talk was originally given at St. Mary. This is a collection of sermons given by Fr. . A demon wants attention. But even given the nature of the Q&A format, I found his answer to be extremely problematic. I think hes out there exorcizing demons. Its okay to do evil things from time to time in order to get a good thing to come as a result of it, which is entirely the opposite People say, What about. Most of these names are just regular English names. Its something I couldve gotten into, but I never did. When I talked about Harry Potter in the last episode, I said, well, some Catholic schools, one in Tennessee just banned the book. Later, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote a reply to this woman and said, It is good that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly. Then he said, Ill send Mr. Fleedwood a copy of your book. Then, later, Kuby, who was the author of this book, Harry Potter: Good or Evil?, asked Cardinal Ratzinger, Can I make your letter public? and he said, Yeah, sure., Mirus, what he says is this, that Cardinal Ratzinger was probably in the habit of giving kindly replies to authors who sent him books. Some people can watch R-rated movies, for example, with sex, drugs, and violence and swear words, and be fine. You would have to do eight or nine exorcisms a day every single day for nine years to reach that kind of a number. I think this is really traced to that anonymous letter that I read to you earlier. One, I dont know why Father Ripperger is sharing that. No Scotsman hates haggis. Well, my Uncle Angus is a Scotsman, and he hates haggis. I know people in deliverance ministries, by the way, who say they are not allowed to talk about what they hear or see in exorcisms. To say that 60% of them are demons right there off the bat, you scroll through them, there is no evidence for that. I dont think that the books glorify lying as something like, This is a great thing everybody should do. I think you have characters Theres one, Narcissa Malfoy lies to the evil Voldemort to save Harrys life. The lesson theyve learned from playing this evil game is that they need Jesus. "Those who actually want whats best for this country, I think that this is just some external observations but I think there is a kind of in the minds of people, a feeling of vulnerability right now," Ripperger said. You can read through the whole article. Ripperger said: The behavior of some of the people who have been the most vociferous during this time frame reminds me a lot of how the demons themselves would, when they get caught in something or when their shame is revealed about the sin they have committed, they sometimes become very vociferous and very angry about it and try and push the envelope even more.. Why? This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. ' They could probably say Star Wars ripped that off from them, but they dont. I hate that. Its just incantations and fictional fantasy worlds where words have the power to manipulate reality in a certain way. In the Harry Potter books, theres a mirror that shows our hearts deepest desire. The article says, Responding to questions as to why Wicca, a modern pagan religion that also uses the words witch and wizard to describe its members, was not represented at Hogwarts, which is the school in Harry Potter, the school where you go to learn magic, Rowling said of Wicca, Its a different concept of magic to the one laid out in the books, so I dont really see how they can coexist. The fact of the matter is is that when you tell people you shouldnt let your kids read that, the purely visceral response you get as a result of that tells me theres something diabolic about the whole thing. I got a whole slate of guests that were bringing in. If he says Harry Potter is bad, then I trust him.. by Fr. Its garbage. Ive talked about Jack Chick on the program before. He was one of the secretaries who wrote the New Testament Epistles. She says, The Force is a life force, energy. Cellar door. She probably is drawing from her studying of classics at the university level. I dont wade into the intra-Catholic disputes often because, you know what, were all brothers and sisters. Theres nothing intrinsic to them. The exorcist claimed that the devil was using people who are not leading morally good lives in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. Now, J.K. Rowling has denied shes a witch. Jesus gives us power over all of the enemy. Would you like to speak about it just for a bit? Yeah, okay. You now what, I trust an exorcist on this matter. ( 47 ) 732.78. To me, we still dont have The evidence bar has definitely not been met yet. Theyre on par with abracadabra or hocus pocus. Ill say that its bad and The Da Vinci Code undermines peoples faith even if millions of people buy the books. The HEK293 cell line was used in the design, development, and production stages of that vaccine, as well as for confirmatory . Again, I went through a great books program. Well, because witches tell us theyre real. I went to one of the movies with a group of my friends because they all wanted to go to the movie, and I havent watched any of them since. They could be wrong about this. However, what I do care about are Catholics who say that there are books or movies or television shows that are off limits to us, that are spiritually dangerous, and put up these warnings and burdens on peoples consciences that dont actually have to be there, especially if they use exaggeration or false statements to bolster their view, because that can place an unnecessary burden on Catholics who are worried about sin, and it can make us look silly to non-Catholics. But the American public, the worldwide public has a propensity for tasteless, bad things. Okay, so the idea here is that Two things. The speaker came out of witchcraft, and he knows what youre up against. All the other exorcists that I know that are experienced are very clear-, Well, thats called the No True Scotsman fallacy. Im going to talk about this at the end of the episode, but we should remember something called Hanlons Razor. Im not saying that hes trying to misleading. I think what were seeing now is that theres some stark comparisons in the behavior of some of these people and its what Ive seen in session. They dont contradict each other. But at the end of the day, if someone says something that is misleading, ambiguous, or false, and people believe that to detrimental ends, then I feel I have a duty in good conscience to say something. Well, Father Amorth, who passed away in 2016, is not the Vaticans chief exorcist. Is it just because of magic? You go through, most of these are just normal names. Thank you all so much, and I hope you have a very blessed day. Well, of course, hes not going to publicly share that he was educated by Freemasons. It was just recognized that in this case a certain thing beyond the natural means was necessary in order to bring something about, whereas in the J.K. 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