RELIGION-BASED EXPLANATION

Can humans be possessed by demonic spirits?

Satan exerts great influence today, but can anyone ac- tually be demon-possessed now? Critics of the Bible, of course, allege that this is an example of the sort of gross superstition characteristic of the Bible. The following quote represents a typical atheistic approach to this matter: “Mark 5:1-13 relates an incredible story wherein Jesus casts out the ‘devils’ from an unfortunate man. He then causes the devils to enter, instead, a herd of swine, and the swine, thus bedeviled, race over a cliff, fall into the sea and drown.

Illustration of a priest performing an exorcism