Timothy Birdnow

Tucker Carlson says he was attacked by a demon while in bed once. That led him to start reading the Bible (and no doubt to his becoming such a powerful voice for Christian Conservative values).

I doubt it not. As a child I had "night terrors" in which I saw demonic beings in my bedroom who frightened the heck out of me. Those went away as I grew older, but they came back about a year or two ago (less scary but still; who wants to awaken to the sight of a demoic figure glaring at you?)

I was also actually attacked by a ghost. I didn't believe in ghosts until one assaulted me. But this particular ghost wasn't very strong; it was flailing at me in rage but had no substance. I kicked out and went right through it and then it retreated, disappearing and being replaced by what appeared to be a Fourth of July sparkler which floated lazily around the room. It was reflected in the mirror and went into a dark hallway and lit the whole hallway up. I observed it pretty carefully. I also tried to think of alternate explanations but never came up with any that made sense. This was in my then-fiance's apartment, who admitted to me she had seen this entity herself.

The previous tenant was an old man who died there. It was a crusty-looking old man that assaulted me.

At any rate, now that I've made everyone believe I'm a kook I have this off my chest. People are free to disbelieve me, but it happened and I was quite lucid at the time and there just was no alternate explanation.

So now I do believe in ghosts; seeing is believing they say. Before that happened I always lumped ghosts in with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and UFO's. No more.

It stands to reason if one believes in God and an afterlife. Could it be ghosts are souls in Purgatory, not in Heaven but not in Hell either? Stuck out in a twilight land between the two until they are honest with themselves about their sins and willing to let go of them? Or they could even be damned souls who have yet to take their place in Hell?

I don't know but I do not disbelieve Carlson. I've talked to people who are credible and have told similar stories.

Demons are a different story but demonic possession is real and ubiquitous, something that happens in all cultures and everywhere. In fact there has been a huge rise in demonic possessions in the Western world over the last few decades, and exorcists are doing land-office business (after being an oddity as late as the seventies.) And religious holy men from all religious traditions are empowered to perform exorcisms by God; Jewish rabbis as well as Protestant Ministers and Catholic priests and Muslim clerics and even Zoarastrians and even Hindus. God is so displeased with such demonic activity He blesses even those whom he is not in communion with in this regard.

Anyone who has had any dealings with exorcisms never speak of it - and are terrified of it. One of my teachers in high school was a Jesuit novitiate (Walter Halloran) who participated in the famous exorcism that inspired Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. He never spoke of it. (He was also an old grump and a drunk, which I now understand completely.) He had his nose broken by the little boy/demon (Blatty changed it to a girl in his novel but it was a boy back in 1948 who came to St. Louis when welts appeared on his stomach saying "St. Louis" where his aunt lived. The exorcism occurred at his aunt's home in Bel Nor and later at St. Louis University's hospital. My mother knew the lead exorcist in the case, I might add, Fr. Williiam Bowderen.

At any rate the Old Catholics decided to do an exorcism on the house in Bel Nor where the kid's aunt lived as nobody stayed there long, and the Catholic Church bitterly opposed them doing this because it could stir up issues. It was televised, btw. I had been curious about this place and when they showed a street sign that was all I needed (I was an expert navigator when I could see well) and drove by the place. Interestingly enough I developed kidney stones that very night and passed three of the buggers by the end of the weekend! Coincidence? Maybe but I assure you I will not ever go by that place again willingly.

If one believes in God one has to believe in angels,and if one believes in angels you have to believe in demons. They are real, they are vicious, and they are not to be trifled with. I sympathize with Mr. Carlson.

At present the whole world is deep in spiritual warfare and the side of righteousness is currently losing. We are reaching a point where God Himself will have to step in. We call that the Great Tribulation and the Parousia (the Second Coming). It's a horrible time to live. But it is where the Good Lord has placed us and we are required to face this battle with courage and good cheer, knowing the war is ultimately won.

At any rate, I wonder if Joe Biden isn't demonically possessed; his touching, hair sniffing, and biting of children is disturbing, as is his barking like a dog and his daughter's claim he repeatedly raped her as a child. Did Mr. Biden hand his soul to the Devil? Perhaps. But he certainly has done the work of the Devil even if he's not consciously doing it.

Darkness has fallen over the whole world.

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