2026-04-04
1 小时 51 分钟Father, thank you so much for doing this.
Thank you for having me.
As a Protestant who grew up in Georgetown,
in part where The Exorcist was filmed, I 've been trained from birth to think of exorcism as something kooky
that the Latin church does for weird cultic reasons.
Not at all mainstream Christianity.
And then you go and read the New Testament.
That's right.
And you realize that the first miracle that Jesus performs in the Gospel of Mark is casting out demons.
And then he repeats that.
Continuously and commissions the apostles to do the same and casting out demons is not a just this random thing it is central
to the gospels that 's right 23 percent of the gospels are actually about christ dealing with demons
so and this is why when you know it 's just unbelievable how did i not know that yeah well and a lot of the christians
will just say well you know i believe in god but i do n't necessarily believe in the devil and you 're like well
do you believe in scripture well yeah well then how can you not believe that this is one of the primary missions of christ
was to save us from them ultimately well when he sends the disciples i mean of course this is your life this is also new
to me i'm just shocked by it when he sends them out it 's like preach the good news and cast out demons yes that 's right
like that 's that 's the mission that 's right so i just before we get into what you 've spent the last decades doing
casting out demons How is it that the modern church,
at least in the United States, at least the Protestant churches in the United States,