Over man but not over the natural law. This is the key distinction here.

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Angels are able to move physical objects. The angel rolled back the stone of Christ's sepulcher. An angel stirred up the water at the probatic pool in St. John's gospel, chapter 5. There are countless other examples in Scripture.

Like it was written by a couple of theology nerds without a sense for realistic dialogue.

That's the point. Angels (and demons, despite their darkened intellects) are very intelligent.

I thought about watching this film when it came out in the theaters. It got such poor ratings from the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ/Communist press that it interested me.    Then I  heard Glen Beck was in it and decided to pass. I guess I will watch it at home.

I had seen the movie when friends asked the other day if I could get it up for them. My son got it up and six saw it and were very moved by it as Catholics. I wondered how such a movie would be shown in a cinema given what it revealed. As I suppose most know it was about a possessed prisoner due to be hung being interviewed by an typical young atheist psychologist who was to determine if the man was insane. If found insane he could not be hung. The prisoner says he is possessed and it was this devil who made him commit the crime. then the demon took over and takes on the psychologist's beliefs. In other words in this case it is a demon who argues the case for God, not a saint. Then the demon in the prisoner tells the psychologist he too has committed two murders and will commit a third before it is finished. He tells the atheist how he was responsible for an abortion of his child, a murder. He then tells the atheist he was responsible for the murder of his mother when agreeing to her euthanasia before she died of natural causes. This is the part that made sure the movie will not be popular among anyone other than those who know abortion and euthanasia are mortal sins against God and coming from a demon, not from a saint or priest. The third murder is when the psychologist signs the prisoner off as sane after being told he is possessed.

I see it's now on DVD.  I might buy it:


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I saw it twice- there is a line that really impressed me but you have to listen carefully. It's in one of the devil's ( possessed man's) rants.
I'm paraphrasing, but he said it was much easier to destroy the children because so many are unbaptized.

That really hit me because my brother's grandchildren are unbaptized and are being raised "evangelical". They are all under the age of reason. People are allowing their children to go to Hell (limbo) before the age of reason because they are against infant baptism. I know that the whole of Protestantism is heresy and deserving of hell, but I hate it that the innocents are lost so easily.

Friends of mine, very traditional Catholics, told me their grandchildren are not baptised even though their parents, my friends children, were reared with the TLM. That is now more rampant than Catholics leaving the faith. Serious.

Now free on Amazon Prime.

I liked it overall, but I thought the first half was much better than the second.

I thought it was funny how the movie is based on a book that is then pitched to you at the end of the movie. 

I didn't like how they really wanted you to feel sorry for the possessed man despite the demon explaining early on that he had to be a willing participant in order to become / remain possessed.