Exactly what it says on the (dramatic) title.
We always hear about Biblically accurate angels: the burning wheels with tons of eyes, the strange looking creatures that sound like they come from the anime “Evangelion”, the cherubim with 4 faces, but I had a thought while watching The Exorcist: Believer (it was…not good for anyone wondering. At all. The disrespect Regan’s mom had towards Merrin and Karras after they died saving her daughter was baffling to listen to, especially…but i digress) a couple of days ago, specifically, if that’s how the demonically possessed are said to more or less act in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, or if they’re they completely different to what we see in movies and games. I’m guessing it’s more than likely the second one, right, but I’m curious about the details like the signs someone’s possessed, the demon’s endgoal, and what they look like, basically everything you can gimme to sate this curiosity or to send me on a rabbit hole, if you’d be so kind?
Doubt Catholics made them up since there are depictions and writings that talk about demons in ancient mesopotamia. That they threw them in their canon and gave them their own quirks like the Romans did with the Greek Pantheon tho, I can believe. Whether it’s fiction or not is irrelevant info to me tho.
And do the scriptures imply demons speak Latin? Because that, specifically, is the part Catholicism made up.
It’s honestly been a while since I cracked open a Bible and actually sat down to read it, so i couldn’t give ya a definative answer on that (plus, I was a very poor excuse of a Catholic lol).
My opinion? it’s one of the quirks Catholicism threw in when demons were incorporated into their canon.
Not sure it was a quirk. More likely a carefully thought out practice to insure the hold Catholicism had on people. Priests spoke and read Latin while most laypeople did not. Having to address demons in Latin ensured that the average person needed the priest to help them out, for a fee/donation of course.
I was a very poor excuse of a Catholic when I was a kid. But I still remember Latin being spoken in Mass, and I remember the priest discouraging his congregation from reading the bible for themselves, cuz no way would we understand it without his expertise to explain it to us.
Religion is some weird crap, man.
Complete opposite of my expierence lmao. Priest hardly spoke Latin during mass (even if he did, I like to imagine we’d have an inkling of what he said, spanish being our primary language and all), and would encourage everyone to read our Bibles and come to him for questions or doubts.
Pretty swell guy. I remember later having my first beer with him and my pops (well…my first beer that wasn’t snuck over or swapped by my uncles and stuff during parties and get togethers. My first official beer, ya get me?)
But ye, Religion can get weird, I agree there.
Well, I’m 70, and my childhood was spent in a French speaking area of Louisiana, and Louisiana isn’t known for being very forward thinking. It’s possible my experience was limited to my location. 😜