Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Exorcism: Ancient Medical Practice?" video.

@ReligionForBreakfast The drift towards the immaterial is something I think you've brought up yourself in more recent vids. As they say, the gods and spirits tend to shrink away into the cracks in our understanding. We know personified forces don't manipulate the universe, so we imagine these concepts now as we imagine gravity or electromagnetism
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@ReligionForBreakfast To your point, for people who understand or understood illness and other maladies to be the direct result of demonic activity, there may indeed be little difference between banishing the demon that makes one speak in tongues and banishing the demon that makes one feverish and bedridden
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They say the gods and spirits shrink away into the cracks in our understanding, and while that could be overstated, it seems undeniably true. But people also like to have their cake and eat it, too: Grandma's physical body was put into an urn, but when you die and go to heaven you'll still be able to recognize her somehow, immaterial though she be
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