They are sent by the father of lies. For example, he claimed that over a period of nine years, he performed 30,000 exorcisms. Thank you for posting this Father . I went through in the previous episode, I listed some of the spells and read them to you. What I need to hear is evidence, good reasons to show that something popular is antithetical towards our faith, is spiritually injurious or dangerous to people. You go through, most of these are just normal names. Richard Heilman and Doug Barry, the show hosts, first prompted their guest by commenting that evil seems arrogant right now and noting seeing images of Black Lives Matter protesters shouting at cops. No Scotsman hates haggis. Well, my Uncle Angus is a Scotsman, and he hates haggis. So I tell people, avoid it. He belongs to the FSSP, the Fraternal Society of Saint Peter. It makes me wonder why I should trust their testimony on this issue. Other Formats: Paperback. 5. Marietta, Argus, Justin, Seamus, Filius, Florean. Chad Alec Ripperger, F.S.S.P. I dont know any other podcast, at least in the Catholic world, thats doing this, and theres hardly any in the Protestant world, where you have someone who represents the faith sitting down for a civil discussion with someone who disagrees with him and talking it out. All right, two more things, and then Im going to wrap up my response here. All Formats Kindle Edition Paperback Hardcover Sort by: Popularity. If you write a book, walk like a witch, talk like a witch, she has a book that has stories about people using magic, similar to J.R.R. Lewis and J.R.R. They dont contradict each other. So if science tells us the universe is 13.7 billion years old, our faith does not contradict that scientific finding. Whether its true or not, I dont know. Youll want to check that out. He's also an exorcist himself, and some people have written in comments saying, "You've done your research. In September, it was revealed that a "Satanist anarchist nabbed the Republican nomination in the sheriffs race of a New Hampshire county while running with the campaign slogan F**k the Police". Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a creationist in such a way that someone wont mistake for the genuine article. That deals with creationism, but Poes Law has a wider view, that sometimes its impossible to distinguish between a parody and real fundamentalism. The devil can take anything and try to possess people. Amazon and COVID-19; Your Account; Your Orders; Shipping Rates & Policies; Amazon Prime; Returns & Replacements; Manage Your Content and Devices; We could just sit down face-to-face and have conversations that are not like on cable news shows where people are shouting back at each other and trying to drive the knife into each other. Fr. They risk their souls, and evil will take over the world. In that book, he says, You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. From that comes Hanlons Razor. Obviously, Harry Potter. Please subscribe to keep reading. The first name, I think, is Salazar, and that is related to a Portuguese dictator, is what Rowling says. Ill post it on the website. Father Chad Ripperger, an American Catholic priest, claims Democrats are 'in league with the devil' Credit: YouTube 5 Ripperger, an exorcist, said the devil was 'using people who are not leading morally good lives' Credit: YouTube 5 Ripperger was reportedly asked to leave the Tulsa, Oklahoma diocese and moved to Denver, Colorado Credit: YouTube 5 They are Greek and Roman gods. by Fr Francis Spirago, Father Chad Ripperger, et al. Otherwise, if we do, Saint Augustine in his commentary on Genesis, he criticized Christians of his day who were arguing for a literal creation theory, saying that they become a mockery to non-Christians, claiming to be experts in astronomy and the sciences when they actually are not experts in these things. Saint Thomas Aquinas put it this way. Now, he claims, Well, witches tell us theyre real spells. Once again, I dont see any evidence for that at all. I listen to audio tapes presented by Benedictine Fr. More Information Are you an author? Father Chad Ripperger, an American Catholic priest who has written numerous books about demonic possession, made the startling claims during an interview with the U.S. Grace Force podcast. Azkaban is a portmanteau, a combination of Alcatraz Azkaban is a prison in the Harry Potter series. The spells in the book-. He says a fire spell. The popular Catholic speaker and author Chris Stefanick shared an excerpt recently from an interview he conducted with Father Chad Ripperger, a well-known Colorado priest who specializes in. The ambulance service said she told them she was trying to emulate the boy magician, hero of the books by J.K. Rowling that have been a sensation among adults and children alike. Theres no evidence for this. Read more. pic.twitter.com/MX7Ab3EyRQ, Ripperger then claimed, "We saw that with COVID," when mayors around the country were setting aside constitutional rights of the citizens., The exorcist went on to allege that tremendous crimes caused by Democrats have caused tremendous damage, that have basically involved treason.. These four books by J.K. Rowling teach witchcraft. I guess this was written midway through the series. 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. With that said, here is the clip with Father Ripperger, and Im going to break down whether I think the reasons he gives are persuasive or compelling. I dont wade into the intra-Catholic disputes often because, you know what, were all brothers and sisters. I know this because I was once very much part of that world.. Hermes is the Roman god of trade. Draco is a constellation. . 27 mos. ( . Ripperger from 1997 to 1999 while he was in Omaha and Lincoln. Ripperger . by Father Chad A. Ripperger ( 3,765 ) $9.60 Prayers for use by the laity in waging spiritual warfare from the public domain and the Church's treasury. Number two, the idea here is that, well, this is literary garbage; how can it make a billion dollars? Obviously, when youre talking about subjugating Satan, hes not getting any glory out of it. Tolkien had magic. In fact, in a 2014 article in The Independent, Rowling said that the one religion thats not contained in Harry Potter is Wicca. Hes a late cartoonist, fundamentalist Baptist. Youre not going to find that information explicitly. Finally, I just want to say I dont want people to take from this that Trent Horn is against Father Ripperger, and he was disrespectful of Father Ripperger. pic.twitter.com/MX7Ab3EyRQ, Ripperger then claimed, "We saw that with COVID," when mayors around the country were setting aside constitutional rights of the citizens., The exorcist went on to allege that tremendous crimes caused by Democrats have caused tremendous damage, that have basically involved treason.. What about some of the more exotic names? I got a list of all the names of the Harry Potter characters, and then I got another list of all the names of demons from different kinds of mythologies, so from not just Christianity, but Judaism, Islam, and I did a cross reference. Some people can watch R-rated movies, for example, with sex, drugs, and violence and swear words, and be fine. So were going to have Originally, people asked me, Hey, why dont you do a podcast responding to what Gordon said on The Matt Fradd Show or something like that? I said, Well, I could do that, but wed be talking past each other. I think the book could be taken too far. Its not that its the name of a demon. So are you going to say that every stupid popular thing in the world is being inspired by demons? That is a strange way to introduce a piece of evidence. The Da Vinci Code is a horrible novel. Learn more about Father Chad A. Ripperger. Donald Trump has continued to fight the results with legal challenges and after he called the election the greatest theft in the history of America. Just as a few people who play Dungeons & Dragons resort to suicide, that could just show some people who are suicidal are apt to play this game. Why? Theres people who super get into Tolkien and do live-action role-play and pretend to cast spells, just the same as people do with Harry Potter. If you are a patron at trenthornpodcast.com, whatever level, Im going to release the dialogue early. Silvanus was one of Peters secretaries in Scripture. A woman set her Madrid home on fire this week as she cooked up a potion in an attempt to imitate the fictional wizard Harry Potter, emergency services say. Im happy to address some of the comments on the podcast later, as they will invariably come up. When youre seven or eight, you think, Yes, right hand, red circle. Now youre like, Uh, we probably shouldnt play this with everybody, when you grow up and you start to see things. If something is demonic or its opposed to the faith, and the public at large accepts it, I dont care. Ive got an atheist coming on talking about miracles. But that doesnt mean someones an expert in everything. Thats fine. Is it a demon? Tolkien. But hes anti-everything. Because witches tell us theyre real. If you liked todays episode, become a premium subscriber at our Patreon page and get access to member-only content. And thats fine most of the time, but sometimes it bleeds beyond, and as I said, number one, makes people who are scrupulous extra worrisome when they dont have to be, and that could be dangerous for them. Its a combination of the words Alcatraz, a prison in San Francisco, and Abaddon, which is a Hebrew word for a place of destruction or doom. Father, I have a question. But even he was prone to making sweeping claims whose validity I question. I think hes out there exorcizing demons. Once again, given all of the other things that he has said, that saying all exorcists are opposed to this, I dont see the evidence for that, because the other things that hes the sweeping claims that hes made, Ive already debunked them, so I have no reason to believe this particular sweeping claim. People will say that we overreact, were irrational, were detached from reality, that our faith isnt worth taking seriously because we overreact to things. This is a collection of sermons given by Fr. Poes Law says this. He can use almost anything to try to possess somebody. A lot of people, Id say at least a dozen people, sent me a video featuring Father Chad Ripperger. I think he was Peters secretary. I would disagree with that. 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. Rowling thing its so imbued and it makes it look so glorious and all those things, its fairly enticing. Trent Horn went to the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Appealing to experts alone is the weakest kind of argument. Its a manifestation of excellence. The character Doc in it talks about the devil theory. Saint Paul told us not to be a stumbling block for one another. But when you go and you make these claims that are misleading at best, or outright false at worst, then thats hard for me because that can damage our credibility as Catholics who want to interact with the world and want to evangelize the world. But if you can read it and you can cultivate it in a good way, and use it to teach valuable lessons about good and evil and about the wonders of imagination, then I think thats fine. I read a lot of them, and one woman says her ideal witch is Yoda from the Star Wars movies. Father Chad Ripperger, an American Catholic priest who has written numerous books about demonic possession, made the startling claims during an interview with the U.S. Grace Force podcast. You would have to do eight or nine exorcisms a day every single day for nine years to reach that kind of a number. Love Island fans' horror as axed Olivia handed power to destroy TWO other stars, Frogmore eviction shows King's drawn a line with Harry, Strictly star bags life-changing EastEnders role as part of new family, Baby's body found after huge search as cops quiz Constance Marten & lover, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. No, Erised is just desire spelled backwards, which is kind of a lazy way to get an exotic name out, but it does the trick every now and then. EWTN News, Inc. is the world's largest Catholic news organization, comprised of television, radio, print and digital media outlets, dedicated to . It wasnt something in which the person, when he heard Gandalf saying the magic, I want to be like Gandalf and do these magic things, thats not what you You just didnt have that. News tagged fr-chad-ripperger on NCRegister. I went and I looked this up. I know The Da Vinci Code is a poorly written novel. We should believe, as Pope Saint John Paul II said in his encyclical On Faith and Reason, that faith and reason are complementary. If he says Harry Potter is bad, then I trust him." Here's the thing. It doesnt mean the game itself has an intrinsic property to do this. Some people say, Well, its not just Father Ripperger. Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vaticans chief exorcist, says that Harry Potter is satanic. Once again, its fantasy play with magic that is not invocational. In Tolkien, the magic was a literary device. Ill say that its bad and The Da Vinci Code undermines peoples faith even if millions of people buy the books. 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