Posted: May 01, 2010 11:17 pm
You don't have to tune into a Xian radio station for long to find some crazy crap.
Today I heard them talking about drug use being an invitation for demonic possession -- they cited how people had claimed they heard growling, saw lights, etc...; they hear accounts of people blown out of their minds on drugs and use that as evidence of demonic possession. For my money, there are always more rational explanations for these things -- the drug user's consciousness is altered -- maybe he hears the neighbor speaking next door, the radio in the next room, or perhaps some neural passageway has been temporarily changed and an auditory memory is evoked... whatever the case, these descriptions are a whole lot more believable, more treatable, more real and a lot less sensational than demonic possession.
Within 5 minutes of the above, I heard them talking about Charles Darwin; citing his bad health as flying in the face of a belief they claim he had of being super-human/super-evolved -- something I'm pretty sure that he never claimed. I was worried the car in the lane next to me would wonder why I kept shouting "bullshit" while driving. OMG -- the idiocy!
Today I heard them talking about drug use being an invitation for demonic possession -- they cited how people had claimed they heard growling, saw lights, etc...; they hear accounts of people blown out of their minds on drugs and use that as evidence of demonic possession. For my money, there are always more rational explanations for these things -- the drug user's consciousness is altered -- maybe he hears the neighbor speaking next door, the radio in the next room, or perhaps some neural passageway has been temporarily changed and an auditory memory is evoked... whatever the case, these descriptions are a whole lot more believable, more treatable, more real and a lot less sensational than demonic possession.
Within 5 minutes of the above, I heard them talking about Charles Darwin; citing his bad health as flying in the face of a belief they claim he had of being super-human/super-evolved -- something I'm pretty sure that he never claimed. I was worried the car in the lane next to me would wonder why I kept shouting "bullshit" while driving. OMG -- the idiocy!