[ahadams2]

Ping.

[AnAmericanMother]

If the Devil in The Passion doesn't scare the pea-turkey out of you, you're braver than I am.

[saradippity]

As a child we always prayed the St. Michael prayer at the end of Mass. In the mid sixties it was removed along with many other wonderful devotions. I believe that that prayer said by all Catholics the world over was a powerful deterrent to the "Evil One".

St. Michael the archangel,defend us in battle,

be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

We humbly beseech thee,oh prince of the heavenly hosts,

by the divine power of God,cast into hell satan

and the other evil spirits,who prowl through the world,

seeking the destruction of souls. Amen.

[redgolum]

Like Russia in the beginning of the 20th century, the West has forgotten the face of God.

My boss is from Spain, and he knew someone on the trains. My boss said that at that moment he HATED America because we "made" the terrorists attack Spain, and if the USA had just rolled over after 9-11, nothing would have happened.

We have reached a point where good is seen as evil, and evil as good. We all need to pray!

[xJones]

"To talk about him was not considered chic," said the Rev. Christian Ruess, pastor of Hamburg's landmark St. Michael's Church in Germany. "In all my years as dean of the chapel in a seminary, I can't remember hearing him mentioned even once," agreed Gabriel Jay C. Rochelle, a former Lutheran theology professor who has since joined an Eastern Orthodox denomination in Pennsylvania.

Are we Christians, or are we what? Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus spent a good portion of His ministry casting demons out of people. If there aren't demons, then Jesus was a loon or the Gospels are false. And considering human history, I'd say there are latter day Gaderene demoniacs still running loose.