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People laugh at Catholicism until they think a demon is in the room. Then suddenly, they want a Catholic priest. It is easy to mock exorcism, confession, holy water, or the sacraments when evil feels distant. But when someone believes they are facing something truly dark, those things do not seem so silly anymore. For centuries, the Catholic Church has taken the reality of evil seriously. But she does not teach us to panic or become obsessed with demons. She points us to Jesus Christ. Prayer. Fasting. Confession. The Eucharist. The authority Christ gave His Church. And in rare, serious cases, the ministry of exorcism. Catholics should not live afraid of demons. Jesus has already won. Evil is real, but it is not equal to God. And when darkness stops feeling like an idea and starts feeling real, people often begin looking for something stronger than themselves. 💬 Do you believe demons are actually real, or do you think they are only symbolic? Why?

More accurately, I’m calling everyone who’d worship a a god who’d punish a substitute who WASN’T an evildoer with a gruesome death—which obviously makes that god a monster—a weirdo with a diseased imagination. That’s not downplaying the wrath of God. This isn’t complicated.

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Britain gave Ireland a faith. Ireland gave Britain back its civilisation. 🇮🇪🇬🇧☘️ Around 385 AD, a British boy was kidnapped and taken to Ireland. He became Saint Patrick. He converted the island. When Rome fell, libraries burned across Europe. Schools closed. Learning collapsed. But in Ireland, monks copied every book they could find. Page by page. Word by word. Greek. Latin. Scripture. Philosophy. They called it the island of saints and scholars. Then those monks came back. 563 AD. Columba sailed to Scotland. Built a monastery on Iona. One of the greatest centres of learning in Europe. 634 AD. Aidan walked south. Built Lindisfarne. On Iona around 800 AD, they began the Book of Kells. Then the Vikings came. Sixty-eight monks killed in a single raid. The survivors fled in an open boat. Clutching the manuscript. It survived. Twelve hundred years later, it still does. Trinity College Dublin. A British boy crossed the sea. Irish monks crossed it back. Two islands. One circle. By preserving the stories others forget, we can keep our history alive. Help us keep our history alive: proudofus.co.uk Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧☘️

What I find funny, is that replacement theology is Christians falling into the same trap of presumptive pride that the Jews fell into when they rejected their messiah. Assuming God “likes” you better. Denying Gods integrity to save a remnant of Israel and honor His promises. Thinking your blessings were earned by your merit rather than grace. Just fundamentally misunderstanding Gods character and His plan. Paul warned of this very attitude in Romans 11. “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.” Romans 11:1-2, 5-8, 11-24 ESV bible.com/bible/59/rom.11.1-…

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Be angry later on. At this moment, we place our prayers on the heavenly altar. Bend the need and offer prayers in Jesus’ name.