{"id":21185,"date":"2016-01-23T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=21185"},"modified":"2016-01-23T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T15:57:42","slug":"exorcism-and-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2016\/01\/exorcism-and-superstition.html","title":{"rendered":"Exorcism and Superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2016\/01\/exorcism2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21186\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2016\/01\/exorcism2.jpg\" alt=\"exorcism2\" width=\"220\" height=\"227\"><\/a>My latest blog post at National Catholic Register is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/longenecker\/exorcism-superstition-and-the-supernatural\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Exorcism movies are popular, but when you see one what is your reaction? Will you respond with superstition or supernaturalism? Superstition is any sort of belief or behavior which is magical. A magical understanding of religion is primitive, immature and dangerous. It involves sympathetic magic or an irrational link between certain behaviors and their outcomes. It means, in some way, we are trying to manipulate things to produce an outcome that we desire.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Sympathetic magic links two otherwise unconnected things together\u2014usually one physical and the other metaphysical an<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/longenecker\/exorcism-superstition-and-the-supernatural\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to read the full post.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/dwightlongenecker.com\/shop\/gargoyle-code-and-slubgrip-instructs\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to learn about the special offer for my two Screwtape Letter Lent books\u2013\u00a0<\/em>The Gargoyle Code\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>Slubgrip Instructs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest blog post at National Catholic Register is here Exorcism movies are popular, but when you see one what is your reaction? 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