Calling her father’s condition “near death,” Mikhaila shared that “this summer has been exceedingly difficult,” calling the entire ordeal “terrifying.” “We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” Mikhaila said.

  • footfaults@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    24·
    21 days ago

    Honestly where in Catholic dogma is there the notion of “spiritual attacks”

    These wacky Catholic converts are just bringing their snake handling and speaking in tongues beliefs into the religion they converted to

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      21 days ago

      It’s definitely not a thing. God is omnipotent, the whole idea of the devil as this entity that is completely separate from God and does his own thing against God’s will is pretty modern. If you’re sick, you’re sick, witches have nothing to do with it.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      21 days ago

      It’s always amazing to me the dangerous levels GOP people can believe Christian woo-woo. Bobby Jindal, an ex-governor of Louisana, not only believes in spiritual warfare - he thought he was actually involved in fighting it.

      Wikipedia sadly only has this…

      In a 1994 article titled “Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare”, Jindal described the events leading up to an apparent exorcism of a friend and how he felt unable to help her at the time. However, Jindal questioned whether what he saw was actually an example of spiritual warfare.

      I read about this. The “questioned” bit is a hedge so that he doesn’t sound like a lunatic on his Wikipedia page. He’s a fucking fundie nut.