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Occultist, paranormal, and New Age beliefs are shockingly common among self-described secularists and materialists. My grandmother was a literal card carrying Communist and she believed that Australian aborigines had the magical ability to heal broken bones through touch. Atheists and agnostics present themselves as steadfast, hard-nosed skeptics with regards to Christianity, then turn around and believe in ufology and trutherism and Buddhism. They're fools. You can't expect consistency from such people. They've rejected God and that leaves a void in them that they have to fill with something, anything.

>implying ghosts aren't real

>>624614

>Well what does the Summa say about that…

thomaslmcdonald.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/st-thomas-aquinas-believed-in-ghosts/

>>624610

>Occultist, paranormal, and New Age beliefs are shockingly common among self-described secularists and materialists

fpbp

>>624610

Atheists also replace Satan with whatever mumbo jumbo (whiteness, the patriarchy, shape-shifting reptilians, Jews). Their so-called "skepticism" goes right own the door on those topics. Whatever they can assign blame on rather than the real metaphysical contaminate we are all aware of.

>>624607

According to my relative

>little gollum looking creatures open portals to our world and sneak around

>the queen is an "Illuminati alien"

>ghosts once possessed his cactus

>goblins get mad if you piss on their invisible homes, which can get messy if their home is your bathroom

and yet

>"naw I think that God stuff was just manmade. organized religion isn't real"

>I'm agnostic. I don't believe any religion

>tulpas and the MLP world are real by the way

>UFOs exist

>>624686

please don't make fun of taxman, he's clearly not right in the head he needs a lot of prayers

>>624751

I heard he got better, or at least over the tulpa stuff.

>>624686

I seen a lot of bronies tried to make tulpas back in the day.

>>624767

They learned it from reading about Buddhist tulpa practices and incorporated it into their weird little Brony cult.

>>624747

UFOs do exist. They just don't know what they are, or they aren't telling us.

>>624777

Look behind you. :^)

>>624610

Exactly, me (former atheist) and at least two of my current atheist friends (all supposedly strong materialists) all attempted at one point or another to create a tulpa (independently of one another)

>>624610

This is absolutely true. It's hilarious, too.

>>624777

I was almost possed by demons, I dunno if that counts

>>624982

The beings performing miracles would be (usually) angels. which were never human to begin with, and therefore not "ghosts". Human spirits remain in Heaven or Hell until the bodily resurrection, and don't make visits to their former dwelling places. "Ghosts" are likely deceitful spirits, at least when they're not just completely imagined. Think of it like aggressive mimicry in animals, like an angler fish or the way some fireflies mimic the light patterns of another species for an easy meal. Except in the case of demons, it's not to eat, but to lure someone into believing false teachings, and away from God.

>>624985

>that widow at my church that believes her recently deceased husband is playing pranks on her like moving papers around and spilling cereal

I must pray for her

>>624988

Likely either her mind's going, or it's carbon monoxide. I'd leave determining whether or not it's something evil to a priest, honestly. Pay her a visit regularly though, lots of old folks are pretty lonely.

>>624777

Ghosts don't real but demons do. Get close to Christ.

>>624995

>Likely either her mind's going, or it's carbon monoxide.

I chuckled.

>>624607

>Redditlettermedia

>>624607

Amazing isn't it? I remember reading an article a while back about how some of the nordic countries are embracing mysticism and ghosts and other nonsense. Sad how people will do anything to try to fill that God-shaped hole in their hearts with anything but God.

>>624610

Fpbp

>>624610

>Occultist, paranormal, and New Age beliefs are shockingly common among self-described secularists and materialists.

Anon if you compare the USA to Europe, you will find that there is a lot less superstition and urban legends in Europe than the USA.

The reason for that is that the Protestants that left Europe to settle other continents, actually were part of a movement inside Christianity that used the occult and paranormal to argue for Gods existence in the face of secular criticism.

Protestant priests made a long and real effort to prove that Ghosts exist, because if Ghost exist so does the Soul.

These people are not the result of material or secular thinking, but the product of a culture that has long endorsed superstitious beliefs and which hasn't ended with the decline of Christianity.

>>624982

>what then are ghosts?

Medieval Christians in Europe believed that the Human was made up of the Body, the Spirit/Mind and the Soul. While the Soul is immortal and goes to Heaven/Hell/Purgatory after death, the Spirit/Mind and Body would remain on Earth as dead matter.

Under certain circumstances the Spirit/Mind or Body could return and stay alive, despite the fact that their Soul has already departed to Heaven/Hell/Purgatory. That is how most undead and ghost in medieval folklore work:

Anon Antonson was a sinner and all around asshole, so after death his Soul went to Hell, but his body came back as a burning Zombie to remind other Christians not to be a sinning asshole.

>>625591

> less superstition and urban legends in the new caliphate

Gonna cite some sources for those claims?

>>624831

Are you implying the psycho in that article did the right thing?

>>625861

Jews sometimes spell God as G-d because by the Pharisee religion they aren't allowed to utter the Tetragrammaton, and they somehow think that means they need to drop the O from the German word God. Whoever wrote that one was probably pretending to be Jewish rather than meaning to slight God.

>>625861

*Two genders

>>625869

Real jews just say/write "HaShem" (lit. "the name")

faux jews write "G*d"

>>625946

They're all fake Jews, brah. Revelation 3:9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cto1DXXHAc&list=PL2UdBNAbnypuVJODDIHA9r0CMgmhMqFiC