Uneducated people (Christians, mostly) believe that the stories in these fictional movies are real. Why is that? Obviously, there's no such thing as demons. Are uneducated people simply unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality?
shareI think you answered your own question.
Education, not necessarily taking tests mind you, is the key to advancing our species. It's only through education that people truly free themselves from whatever barbaric or irrational tendencies we may have once had as a means of survival. I think as humans, as our brains evolved, we developed a need to explain the world around us. An intelligent person knows we don't know much, and does not purport that we do.
The reality is, you cannot disprove the existence of ghosts, demons, etc. but you also cannot prove their existence either. We're starting with a negative, and have no data with which we can reasonably test. I personally believe that ghosts, demons "exist" in the minds of people who are vulnerable enough to believe. Our minds are powerful, and people can truly convince themselves of anything. It's like when you lose your wallet, maybe at some point in your search you blamed someone else for stealing it. Is that irrational? Probably. You have no evidence they took it, and you end up finding it 5 minutes later. We ultimately choose to engage in irrational thoughts and behaviors, but there isn't exactly a mechanism that stops us from doing it. If there was, no one would believe in ghosts, demons, etc. and films like this wouldn't be based on "true stories."
There's this film called The Skeleton Key, which you may have heard of, which was unintentionally brilliant. Spoilers if you haven't seen it: the entire film is about coercing this relatively rational woman into believing in hoodoo witchcraft so that one of the two body snatchers and primary villains in the film can switch bodies with her, in an effort to escape death. When one body "ages out" so to speak, they hop to a new body. However, the person they "hop" into must believe this can happen before they can move forward with their plans. Ultimately the protagonist does choose to believe, and it is at this point that she is in a vulnerable position and her body is stolen from her. However, it wasn't until she believed it could happen...that it happened. Get it?
uneducated? what a joke
this days everyone is a goddamn scientist because they do science, those days are over when only illiterate people believed in fairy tales, everyone is basically spoon fed science like astronomy and religion from the get go
Come on, man. Anyone with an education would post their sources of the facts that support such a bold claim. Otherwise, it is just an opinion and a troll attempt. Show us the statistics that prove uneducated people believe fictional stories in movies and that it is mostly uneducated Christians. I'm not saying you are wrong, but if you can't produce the sources that support it, then you are just making it up to anger people.
It's got nothing to do with education, but reality. the Catholic church says this stuff is real, so it's real. it's the Church tied back to Jesus Christ who is part of The Holy Trinity (Father/Son(Jesus Christ)/Holy Spirit) who is God.
i am sure the movies might amp things up etc etc but demonic possession does happen even though it's very rare.
so the truth is... God exists and so does Satan and his demons. so after you die here on earth it's either heaven or hell for your final destination.
but with all of that said i think when it comes to religion and belief in God it pretty much boils down to this for most people...
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - St Thomas Aquinas
typical atheist scum. Don't worry, Christians soon won't bother your little secular mind. Now, muslims, that's different. They have very strong faith, come in great numbers and won't be bullied by you atheists. But that's not my problem.
shareBecause our faith is backed up by science. God asks us to educate ourselves to strengthen our faith! ;)
shareWell you will find out when you die, if Christians were right or wrong but what if you know, they (the Christians) are right, and there is a hell and you will be there for all eternity!
Scary, right!?
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ALBERT EINSTEIN
It seems OP has certainly proved that religious zealots (namely Christians) are quite uneducated and incapable of forming logical arguments.
Well you will find out when you die, if Christians were right or wrong but what if you know, they (the Christians) are right, and there is a hell and you will be there for all eternity!
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It is written in the Bible that Jesus exorcised some demons (among the many other ridiculous things that books claims) :
so it goes without saying that if you do believe in Jesus you HAVE TO believe in demons.
Otherwise you are a hypocrite, which is typical of Christians so it all makes sense.
Also, where the F was Jesus between age 13 and 30 ? That's not written anywhere ?? What a poor, nonsensical and incomplete story : at that thing is a best seller ??? Man, people had nothing better to read those days.
Oh wait, it was the ONLY book they were allowed to read for a thousand years LOL what a sh!tty life must it had been under the Church's rule. So glad it's over.
Fxxx Jesus, good riddance.