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Michelle Crouch's avatar

I love this post and the essay that inspired it so much. Thank you, both of you, for helping us recover a more robust demonology. I'm reminded of St. Antony of the Desert's words in St. Athanasius' little book about his teachings: "They fit their phantoms to the mind they find in us. If they find us in fear and panic, at once they assail us, like thieves who find the palace unguarded; and all that we of ourselves are thinking, that they do and more... But if they find us glad in the Lord and pondering on the good things to come, and thinking thoughts of God and accounting that all is in God's hand...seeing the soul safeguarded with such thoughts they turn away in shame... for they are, as I said, very cowardly, always expecting the fire that is prepared for them." The means of grace and the hope of glory are very great. We neglect them to our detriment. Bless you for proclaiming them so beautifully!

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Jan Hollerbach's avatar

I’d love to see you two and Jordan Peterson do an interview/discussion on this. The extent to which addiction, compulsion, and self-harm seem to have gotten so much worse does seem like Screwtape and his (now apparently innumerable) nephews have been working overtime. The discussion of the psychological and demonic and their interplay would be fascinating.

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