Another claim,
that most people accept, is the idea that child molesters can be
"cured" though psychoanalysis or psychotherapy. There is, of course, no clear-cut evidence
for this strange claim. But since a
"doctor" representing the Psychotherapy Establishment makes this
claim, all Liberals must accept this idea as gospel. The idea that "bad" ideas and
behaviors can be banished from child molesters is not very different from the
idea that a priest can drive a demon out of the body of someone who is
"possessed."
The idea of
demonic possession had fallen onto hard times in the 20th century, until it was
revived by Hollywood. The film The
Exorcist (1973) showed on the big screen the power of demons. A little girl levitates a bed into the air,
screams insults (though not nearly as bad as some the stuff I have heard coming
from my Irish grandmother), makes her head spin around, and pukes up buckets of
pea soup—much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.
You have to
wonder, of course, how a priest could intimidate a demon into abandoning a
demonically-possessed body. Throwing
Holy Water on the girl and chanting in Latin don't seem to have much effect, at
least not in the film. It must seem
strange then to non-Catholics that the priest could have such power over a
demon to be able to drive him out of her body.
To Catholics, however, the answer is clear. Anyone who has talked to a priest for more
than five minutes can readily understand why the demon would abandon the fight
and exit the room, post haste, as soon as the priest comes through the
door. I myself have seen a particularly
boring priest clear a room full of guests in five minutes flat.
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