Exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger: Possessed Politicians, Occult Activity, and Speaking to Satan Himself
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How does mental health relate to demon possession?
Father, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for having me. As a Protestant who grew up in Georgetown, in part where The Exorcist was filmed, I've been trained from birth to think of exorcism as something kooky that the Latin church does for weird cultic reasons. Not at all mainstream Christianity. And then you go and read the New Testament. That's right. realize that the first miracle that Jesus performs in the Gospel of Mark is casting out demons.
What exactly are demons and their nature?
And then he repeats that continuously and commissions the apostles to do the same. And casting out demons is not a, just this random thing. It is central to the Gospels. That's right.
23% of the Gospels are actually about Christ dealing with demons. So, and this is why when, you know, it's just unbelievable. How did I not know that? Yeah, well, and a lot of the Christians will just say, well, you know, I believe in God, but I don't necessarily believe in the devil. And you're like, well, do you believe in Scripture? Well, yeah. Well, then how can you not believe that this is one of the primary missions of Christ was to save us from them, ultimately?
Well, when he sends the disciples, I mean, of course, this is your life. This is all so new to me. I'm just shocked by it. When he sends them out, it's like, preach the good news and cast out demons. Yes, that's right. Like, that's the mission. That's right. So I just, before we get into what you've spent...
What is the mission of demons in society?
the last decades doing, casting out demons, how is it that the modern church, at least in the United States, at least the Protestant churches in the United States, have so de-emphasized this to the point where it's disappeared?
I think there's a historical reason behind that. So if you, and it's not just here like in the United States, it's actually in the West in general, the Christian West specifically. And basically it had to do with the advent of psychology. So when psychology came on board, uh it became in vogue especially in the 50s and in the 60s you just think that um that uh you know that all these people's problems were just purely psychological i mean there are psychological issues that very much look like that but the fact is is that um so they just started chalking it up and that's one of the reasons why in the united states um before the 1960s the number of diocese that is the catholic diocese that had an exorcist was fairly high i mean every major diocese would have one
But then it started to decline precisely based upon that thinking. But then over the course of time, they begin to realize, well, look, there's certain things we're seeing that are not psychological. And so they can't be explained in that way.
What role do child sacrifice and pacts with demons play?
And people needed the help. And so now the bishops are coming a little bit more up to speed in that regard.
Well, yeah, after 100 years of Freud, we still can't identify what schizophrenia is. It does make you realize, at the very least, there are things we don't understand that could very well be supernatural. So that does make you wonder about the origins of psychology, though. I mean, if the net effect was to, eliminate people's belief in something real, which is demonic possession.
Yeah. Well, I think that was only one aspect of it. I think that the real goal of a lot of the, um, psychologists, uh, which is in the literature is that many of them are atheists, you know, they just didn't believe in God. And so they, they wanted to eliminate any concept of anything supernatural or what we call predator naturals, which is the demons are predator natural. They're not God is the one that's supernatural, but we tend to talk that way, although sometimes people will just say supernatural thinking about demons in that way too. Can you, for the ignorant like me, explain the difference between praetor-natural and supernatural? So supernatural is those things which are above anything that is created, and that pertains to God.
Whereas praetor natural comes from the Latin word praetor in natura, which means aside from nature. So that would be things that are above what we experience as human beings in this world.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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How does mental health relate to demon possession?
0:04–0:29
2
What exactly are demons and their nature?
0:29–1:18
3
What is the mission of demons in society?
1:18–2:27
4
What role do child sacrifice and pacts with demons play?
2:27–4:25
5
How does someone become possessed by a demon?
4:25–7:42
6
What signs indicate a person may be possessed?
7:42–10:46
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How can individuals protect themselves from demonic influence?
10:46–13:26
8
What impact does addiction have on demonic possession?
13:26–1:49:02
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