Evil is real. Evil is driven by personal beings called demons. They are led in their dark kingdom by Satan, a fallen angel. They rebelled in heaven against God and were thrown down. Get that - understand it fully - and live your life as if you get it.
The photo at left is not a fake, it was taken by a German journalist Michael Mannheimer, known as the bravest man to stand up to Islam. Some of Michael Mannheimer's books can be found in stores and on the Internet, though most are in German. He speaks out a lot about the takeover of Europe by Islamists, and paints the picture accurately, without all of the political correctness that tries to ignore the reality of what is coming (and what is obviously already here). He has taken many photos like this at scenes of crimes against Christians. In the second photo below - notice that the hands have been severed. Go ahead, right click on the photos and download them to your photo editor for a close-up. You need to see the reality of demonic evil. That is what we all face with demonic evil, and with radical Islam (one of their strategies) if we don't all wake up.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy..." - John 10:10
Many in the West, materialists and scientific-minded purists, deny the spiritual world exists. Some who even call themselves Christians deny that Satan exists. They are deceived. Many other Christians would say they believe in the afterlife, and even believe in Satan, but they live like they don't, and go about their merry way totally oblivious to the carnage and spiritual warfare that occurs everyday all around them. With all three groups above, Satan and his demonic kingdom has succeeded. They are oblivious to the threat, and often actually blame bad things happening to them - on God! I'm sure the demons really love that one. They perpetrate evil and bad things upon humans - through and by using humans whom they influence greatly; they have convinced many humans they don't exist; and so God gets blamed and many lose what little faith they have and drop out of church because they are angry at God for the bad thing that happened. Do you see the blindness we often have to what is really happening behind the scenes?
I personally believe that the spiritual world and the material world overlap - almost entirely. What happens in that realm has huge consequences is this realm, and we in the physical-material realm also can affect the spiritual world. I have no doubt in my mind that Satan is real and is very active today. I also have no doubt in my mind that what was done by humans to these women - because they were Christians - had demonic entities directly behind it tempting, driving, urging on just what was done to them. There is a cosmic war of good and evil going on in the universe, and it is being played out in part, right here on earth as well. I believe that the worldwide radical Islamist movement is merely one current strategy of Satan in this war, and is part of the cosmic war being played out like moving rooks and pawns on a chess set. Please: wake up!
"Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus." -Revelation 12:17
mike, what is the context of these horrible pictures? i went to Michael Mannheimer's site and could not find these pictures anywhere. you wrote that the first picture is not a fake and then you go on mentioning Michael Mannheimer's work regarding islam. the text accompanying the picture does not make it clear what the exact context is: yes, there is evil; yes, islam can be a problem and has some dubious teachings (i'm trying to remain diplomatic here). but what does that have to do with the first picture shown?:
ReplyDeleteand why does the lady have a cross sticking out of her mouth? what on earth is going on here?
The photographs, which are indeed extremely graphic and horrible, are simply to expose the horrific truth of diabolical evil, nothing more. I debated for a long time whether to post those or not, and finally opted to because I believe most of us Americans are blind to what really goes on in the world, and that we indeed live in a scrubbed, "sanitized" version of reality that leads us to very wrong conclusions. (For example, we were not shown the videos of the jumpers in the World Trade Center attacks, or the on screen beheadings of captured American civilians by terroists in Iraq - and rightly so due to their horrific nature - but at the same time we lose the nature of the threat.) My intent was not to pick on Islam so much as it was to expose evil that is beyond a human person doing something "bad" - but is to show that there is something deeper, behind the scenes, that is truly evil. As I said, I'm simply trying to graps the true nature of the threat, and how horrible and evil it really is. I want to know the truth, and how bad it really is. The first step to solving a problem is to know about the problem - and how serious it is. I don't want to stick my head in the sand, and so what I post here is to help others who want the same thing.
ReplyDeleteIt has been so long since I discovered, in my own research, where that particular photo came from (that post was a year and a half ago), but it isn't limited at all to that. For example, one can Google "Mexican drug war beheadings" and see other examples of what, in my opinion, points to something that goes beyond "evil," to an evil driven by diabolical forces. It's one thing to kill, it's quite another to be kill diabolically - the adjective points itself to the phenomena. Another recent phenomena is the cannibalism that is taking place - people killing and then eating body parts, and not all of it is due to drugs. I'm a full-time Deputy Sheriff, and fromt he reports I read, this stuff is getting worse...much, much worse. My view is that something else is going on.
"What on earth is going on here?" is a great question! My explanation, which I have a feeling you will not accept (I don't say that in a nasty way - just based upon your other comments that leads me to think you do not believe in the "super-natural" world), is that there is more going on here than merely that which is upon the earth.
By the way, good to hear from you again! You ask great questions, and while I may seem rough in my answers, I don't mean to. Much can be misunderstood without seeing a person's body language or hearing their tone. I hold some strongly held views, and I may go after views that I hold to be false, but I never want to come across as going after the person that holds them.
thank you mike for taking the time to reply. first, i want you to know that i fully understand your tone of voice and not to worry about how i perceive your responses. i agree, electronic communication can lead to misunderstandings due to the loss of the other communication channels. so now that we both know that, let's move on without undue concern about ruffling feathers.
ReplyDeletei also just noticed that you posted a lengthy response to my 1st post. thank you for that and i will make sure to read it later.
now, we might have more in common than you think. so perhaps it is time for me to come clean. somewhat. in a nutshell, i grew up in the roman catholic faith, the pre-vatican 2 kind. in my teenage years i started having problems with the bible and moved on to buddhism.
but since a child, i have always been keenly aware of evil in the world and still am keenly interested in figuring out how are such incomprehensible acts even possible, 'to grasp the true nature of the threat' as you put it. (what's happening in mexico is a great example.) i too want to know the truth, especially the Truth. it's the greatest drive i know and makes it so difficult to have to deal with a society that seems to care nothing about it.
now, i agree with pretty much everything you said in this post. i used to think along the same lines, a long time ago.
BUT i have a strong rational mind. it's my personal doubting thomas and he leads me to question whether or not there isn't a better explanation than a theological one to the depths of depravity the world is witnessing.
as regards the supernatural, well… that's a tough one because if i want my worldview to remain consistent, i'd have to reject the supernatural, at least as it is defined in catholicism. and yet, i find it hard to do so. i'm actually in contradiction with myself to a certain extent seeing as i am willing to accept some buddhist notions of which i have no proof whatsoever either.
and then there is science and all the advances made in understanding the brain and the amazing potential of the mind. when i consider how little we do know, it seems somewhat unreasonable to postulate metaphysical agencies to explain phenomena that might very well find their cause in that of a as of yet not fully understood or discovered part of the mind. for instance, we do not fully comprehend the exact nature of the relationship between mind and reality and how one creates the other or vice versa.
it is those unknowns that caution me not to jump to conclusions too hastily, which is what i now consider i was doing when i still had faith and actually believed in the active existence of evil entities as defined in the judeo-christian literature.
in the end, the problem is an epistemological one: how do i know what i know, and how can i validate it satisfactorily? and what would satisfactorily even mean in this context? not to mention the limitations of my own mind, which might perhaps make it impossible to grasp all this from a rational standpoint, that is to say, without recourse to faith. but then again, i don't want to believe that that is the case. i want to believe that reason can resolve into a crystal clear picture the shadowy figures at the edge of perception.
so, i get somewhat upset when i read or hear claims from religious people about this or that phenomenon and how it is supposedly 'proof' of something without providing anything more solid than a faith-based argument. and when stumbling across your site, i couldn't find any solid data to backup the implications and i don't like that. people who have no or little background in catholicism will never be able to comprehend what you blog about. they will probably dismiss it off-hand as medieval obscurantism. and i want to, to be honest. i find it hard to accept that this being 2012 we still are dealing with stuff like this.
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So are you saying that evil occurs just in our imagination? I have to disagree with you based on my own personal experiences with evil. I don't think my mind created what I experienced for a few years in my home. Not sure what your new found religion teaches. For me there is no doubt good and evil are part of our world. Just because something is not logical does not mean it does not happen or is real. In my humble opinion thats what messes up humans....some of us want logical explanations for things to make sense. All of what I just wrote is of course my opinion based on my personal experiences. I believe in God and demons and good and evil....nothing more nothing less.
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ReplyDeleteyet, if on the other hand you could substantiate better all these claims--for instance, i read malachi martin's book on the subject and it's a great read but there is no evidence provided ever. where are the video and audio tapes? where is the linguistic analysis that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a possessed is actually speaking in a dead language, a language he or she could not have known?
now that's the kind of evidence the world needs. if we had that, i mean for those people who obviously were not in the room during the exorcism--you guys might have witnessed something that makes the case so clear there is no doubt possible--but for the rest of us, how are we supposed to believe any of this?
the case of anneliese michel comes to mind. her epilepsy was mistaken for possession. for those who don't know, here is the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel
i know: one either has faith or doesn't. i'm just looking for a way to get to the bottom of it without having to take a blind leap.
but to return to my original question re. the first picture: do you remember what the context of that picture was? was it taken after a bona fide exorcism or is it a still from some horror flick--but you said it was a real photo so…? or has it nothing to with an exorcism and was it just a bunch of anti-christian maniacs who murdered this woman?
this is just so beyond the pale, i need to satisfy myself that it cannot be real. surely a hoax, or psyop operation spreading fake pictures on the web.
anyway, i'd appreciate any leads.