Hitler and Stalin were possessed, says Vatican
Hitler and Stalin were posessed by the devil and Harry Potter needs an exorcism. That’s the gist of the Vatican’s top exorcism guru chief Father Gabriele Amorth.
Father Amorth is Pope Benedict XVI’s top “caster out of demons” and spoke about these issues during an interview on Vatican Radio. He suggested that the amplitude of the atrocities both men carried out is proof enough of demonic possession.
But not only Hitler was under ol’ Beezebub’s thumb; the whole Nazi party was:
“Of course the Devil exists and he can not only possess a single person but also groups and entire populations. I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed.”
Hm, entire populations, eh? Suddenly, my hometown is starting to make sense to me.
As for Harry Potter, well, we all know how much the Vatican loves the idea of children reading escapist novels, but Father Amorth is convinced that Satan’s got it good on Harry’s person; Harry’s fictional person.
“Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil.”
I bet he hopes Voldemort kills Harry in the last novel.
I don’t want to come off as, you know, a dingaling, but doesn’t saying that a guy like Hitler was possessed by Satan kind of absolves the man from his crimes? You know, to the degree that he wasn’t in full control of himself?
What’s the message we should be getting here?
One more thing: at least Father Amorth seems to understand the amplitude of certain events, unlike other folks.
I’ve never really understood the reaction the holicaust deniers. Isn’t it just good sense to question information? I mean, we sit and berate Routers and Fox for mis-informing us on the War-on-Terror™, but we don’t question the notion that this type of mis-information and propaganda was rife back in the thirties and forties.
I mean, if I believed everything I heard about World War 2 then I’d be under the impression that Daffy Duck played a substantial part in Smacking Hitler around.
The difference between Fox News punditry and the historical and verifiable outcome of WWII are in two separate categories.
Love you dearly, Dan, but I think you’re in the pasture with the sheep on this one.
But I thought history was written by the winners. The idea that the governments of the world could boost the numbers of dead in order to gain more backing from the general populous in a pre-internet world seems like such a plausible notion. You tend to be fairly clued up on stuff like this and I wonder what you’ve been exposed to that’s made the two catergories so seperate when they seem to me to have such distinctive parallels.
and for old times sake,..
http://www.invisiblespiders.com/lilleystreet/comic.asp?comnum=21
I understand what you’re saying, very much so and yes, it’s important to be skeptical about such things. But there have also been countless independant researchers, scholars and historians who have backtracked through the data and can back up these claims. There are people who think that everything is a conspiracy, and usually tend to think that the moon landing was shot in a Pittsburgh basement, too.
These numbers are staggering one way or another. Take Rwanda, for example. The Wikipedia article states that between 800,000 to 1,071,000 people died. Does it make it more tragic that a million people died than if eight hundred thousand did? It’s already tragic that people had to lose their lives in such a senseless affair. Even if it had “only” been 10 people, it would have been 10 too much.
I was chatting to my wife about this little discourse and she nearly had an embolism. Then she sat me down and explained all the clever ways that they come to the estimates. There’s some really clever math going on there. but yes, as I point out in that comic I linked to, ‘only’ killing 2 million people isn’t really a strong defense.
Agreed, Dan.
Also, your wife has the smarts, but you have the Aussie accent.
I wonder what happens if I go on a killing spree in the Vatican state; then turn myself in, claiming I was possessed? That’d be a hoot.
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